Quotes About Agency

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

No one can give us power. If we aren't part of the process of taking it, we won't be strong enough to use it.

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

If men could not trust in the divine agency of the gods, and if human perfection were no longer possible within the polis, the only conclusion seemed to be that man's fate was solely a personal matter.

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.

Lo que consideramos nuestras acciones «libres» no son las aleatorias o indeterminadas, sino las que están ampliamente «determinadas» por quienes somos, cómo pensamos y qué está en juego. (Si bien están ampliamente determinadas, pueden ser muy impredecibles por razones de complejidad.)

the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

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

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

God will facilitate, but He will not force.

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.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

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.

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.

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?

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.