Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge discusses personal responsibility

Learn early on in life to duck responsibility. It's not my fault. I didn't do it. It's not my job. How could God let this happen, or whatever it may be? It is futile to blame God for our mistakes or the actions of others. The responsibility for your life rests squarely on your shoulders. Yes, it is a heavy burden. Yes, it is heavier than what you can shoulder very far or very long. But the Lord will help you carry it. He will strengthen you against the weight of your burden. He will help you press forward if you will let him. Whatever your circumstances, rich or poor, sick or healthy, whole or disabled, married or single, black or white, straight or gay, life is bigger than any one of us alone, and its full weight is too heavy to bear up alone. At least for very long. Without help, your knees eventually buckle. Without help, the weight slowly grinds you down to dust. There is indeed an opposition in all things, and life is hard everywhere for everyone. The plan never was, never has been. To go along. Rather acknowledge your weakness and rely on the Lord. But go and keep going. Yes, strength, strength. To be strong is a quality to be admired, to be sure. But it seems to me the Lord does not say simply be strong. Rather, he says as to Joshua, for example, be strong and of good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee. Whither.