Quotes about Autonomy

If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.

I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling - not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things - then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen.

When God's wise and loving rule over you is replaced with self-rule, other people become your subjects.

Self-Sufficiency

Your spouse, your friends, and your children cannot be the sources of your identity.

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live: and unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them.

God both develops and, for our good, tests our character by leaving us to decide. He calls us to responsible citizenship in his kingdom by saying—in effect or in reality—as often as possible, "My will for you in this case is that you to decide on your own".

Great part of our growth includes disengaging from the expectations of others.

But responsibility and initiative are the heart of our relationship with God. We are not robots, and he does not work with robots.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.