Quotes about Agency

We're responsible for our own lives.

First, take responsibility for your life; and second, take initiative. It's that simple. Be an agent, not a victim. Don't wait for life to happen to you; happen to it. Be the driver of your life, not just a passenger. Live out of your imagination, not your past.

We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existence that which is not yet, but which will be, through us.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent.

Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

A man is the origin of his action.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

To use infinite agency to close a gap is to rob it of its infinite character.

Revelation is something communicated from infinite agency or reality to the finite mind. But (in Farrer's picture) this is not a matter of God just interrupting the process of the world to 'insert' something alien into the gap; it happens as a result of what happens in the world of finite agents or substances, as these finite realities are modified in their relations to one another, drawn into newly meaningful shapes.

The Creator is that which activates a potentially unlimited set of modes in which finite agency is exercised, but is also simply what eternally is.