Quotes about Autonomy
It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.
- Gregory Boyd
those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
- William Paul Young
I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
- William Law
God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.
- Martin Luther
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.
- Pope John Paul II
We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'
- Oprah Winfrey
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
- Rob Bell
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.
- Desmond Tutu
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.
- Diane von Furstenberg
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson