Quotes about Agency
God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
- Philip Yancey
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.
- CS Lewis
God has His own way of choosing His instruments.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.
- Gordon Hinckley
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.
- Henry B. Eyring
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?
- John Wesley