Quotes about Agency

I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.

there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it.

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

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

The third truth to keep before us is that the Bible consistently portrays people as making real choices of their own will.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

In the light of this clarification of the finite/infinite distinction, we can see that 'revelatory' action, including whatever events allow us a closer conscious share in infinite agency (in the love of the Trinity, to use the conventional theological phrasing), will be, not an interruption of the finite sequence, but a particular configuration of finite agency such that it communicates more than its own immanent content.

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.