Quotes about Agency

Justifying faith is not merely alongside good works, but is also the agency employed by the grace of God to give rise to good works. Thus good works are the evidence of authentic faith.

How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?

It is through the mighty agency of the Holy Spirit that the government of Satan is to be subdued and subjected. It is the Holy Spirit that convinces of sin and expels it from the soul by the consent of the human agent....

I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.

there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

The third truth to keep before us is that the Bible consistently portrays people as making real choices of their own will.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.