Quotes about Agency

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

A man is the origin of his action.

Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

We are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

Finally, Frankl's most enduring insight, one that I have called on often in my own life and in countless counseling situations: Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control

Frank! would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

Ultimately, man is not subject to the conditions that confront him; rather, these conditions are subject to his decision.

Certainly we struggle as victims of other people's unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.