Quotes About Autonomy

When revealed theology is reduced to an autonomous study of man, when biblical authority is replaced by an unstable human wisdom, when behavior is directed by the descriptions of social science instead of the prescriptions of God's Word, then we have returned to the situation prevailing at the time of the Book of Judges: every man will do what is right in his own eyes.

A citizen who spiralled down into insanity could spend teratau in a state of confusion and pain, with a mind too damaged to authorise help, or even to choose extinction. That was the price of autonomy: an inalienable right to madness and suffering, inseparable from the right to solitude and peace.

Rakesh said, 'What do the Aloof think we can do with this, that they can't do themselves?' 'Give a damn?' Parantham suggested.

To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

If vou choose the airline of autonomy you're going to have to end up where you don't want to be, illogical, immoral, unfree with no dignity. And at that point the choice is between life and death. Spiritual life and death, moral life and death, intellectual life and death.

Van Til's presuppositional approach: (a) locating his opponent's crucial presuppositions, (b) criticizing the autonomous attitude that arises from a failure to honor the Creator-creature distinction, (c) exposing the internal and destructive philosophical tensions that attend autonomy, and then (d) setting forth the only viable alternative, biblical Christianity.

One must choose theonomy or autonomy, but autonomy is morally crippled. So also are half-way measures between theonomy and autonomy; the blending of the two yields subtle antinomianism.

Understand telling a Woman to "smile" is an imposition and a demand you have no right to make.

You can't help people more than they want to help themselves.

each of us is whole and complete unto ourselves.

The opportunity to be imprisoned or free is ours, and we're the only ones who can make the choice.

McKay made no secret of his passion for free agency, speaking frequently on the subject in public settings.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

She is a woman who needs someone to take care of her, but it isn't going to be me.

Nowhere does Niemeyer set out a specific aesthetic. In "The Autonomous Man" he notes that the imagination can be used for good or ill. In the broadest sense, he believed that the imagination could move either in the direction of autonomy, creating self-enclosed systems, or in the direction of participation, that is, a deepening of our sense of the mystery that surrounds our existence.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

We'll meet at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat 'til you get there. Once you get there; you're on your own.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

No one can quit smoking for you, or make you want to change your life. No one can make you do anything that you don't want to do.

Mixed into your memories You are fortified for life And you don't need anyone anymore.

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

Guardiola believed in handing greater responsibility to the footballers, trusting that their intuition could help solve a great amount of their problems. As a coach, Pep remained true to this idea and was determined to let his charges take the initiative.