Quotes about Autonomy

Our actions are not simply links in a closed chain of causally connected physical events. We have the capacity to be first causes, starting a new chain of cause and effect.

For while we may debate our freedom to choose, there is no doubt that we are not free not to choose.

For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

The world can't decide what's beautiful. So you decide, okay?

Where there are no visible conflicts, there is no freedom," Montesquieu said.

We have moved away from traditional Judeo-Christian values toward a worldview that lets us self-select values based on whether they serve our self-interests. Like a child loose in a candy store, we pick our values, we determine our own fate, we captain our own ship.

One of the most dangerous delusions for each of us is the delusion of our own sovereignty. And one of our most dangerous idols is the idol of control.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency

Autonomous Christianity never works, because our spiritual life was designed by God to be a community project.

Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

We must be ourselves, we must decide where to go.