Quotes about Agency

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

We were not designed to be dominated.

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

The political agency of YHWH comes, in Israelite tradition, to be a stable, orderly cultic presence, but without surrendering any of the force of agency known in the exodus narrative itself. Thus "glory" becomes a cover term that holds together forceful agency and abiding presence

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.