Elder Gerald N. Lund, who served as a member of the Seventy, emphasized the role of personal agency in preparing our hearts to receive personal revelation:
“We feel things in our hearts. In the scriptures, the prophets teach that personal revelation is closely linked to the heart.
“The heart is a tender place. It is sensitive to many influences, both positive and negative.
“Individual agency is so sacred that Heavenly Father will never force the human heart, even with all His infinite power. Man may try to do so, but God does not. To put it another way, God allows us to be the guardians, or the gatekeepers, of our own hearts. We must, of our own free will, open our hearts to the Spirit, for He will not force Himself upon us” (Gerald N. Lund, “Opening Our Hearts,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2008, 32, 33).
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