Quotes about Agency

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.

But responsibility and initiative are the heart of our relationship with God. We are not robots, and he does not work with robots.

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

When God created human beings in his 'image' and 'likeness,' he was designating us as his representatives on the earth. Instead of running things directly himself, he chose us as his intermediaries to run things here in this world. As his image bearers, we speak and act on his behalf.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

it's clear that God didn't create women to be passive victims waiting to be saved by men.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.