Quotes about Agency

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Our actions are not simply links in a closed chain of causally connected physical events. We have the capacity to be first causes, starting a new chain of cause and effect.

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

I believe the world will never be completely converted to Christianity by any existing agency before the end comes. Despite all that can be done by ministers, churches, schools, and missions, the wheat and the tares will grow together until the harvest, and when the end comes, the earth will be in much the same state that it was when the flood came in the days of Noah (Matthew 13:24-30; 24:37-39).

I acknowledge that I can control only myself. I can't control how another person acts or reacts.