Quotes About Freedom

Our lives are a blink in the scheme of things. But God's name exists forever! Those who hitch their wagon to this know freedom, for they have glimpsed the eternal. At the end of our long journey, there is peace.

Pursue the world and you will have the world. Pursue God and you will have peace of spirit. Here is the perennial choice offered to the son of Man; will he choose the world and be happy or turn to God and become free?

Here is the wisdom of the free! They no longer waste time pursuing the world. Instead, they find their joy in God, always turning to Him for comfort. They know where there sustenance lies, and are no longer deceived.

With God, anything is bearable. Without God we are cast adrift, cut off from real life. This is why those who have God need very little in the way of things. They're already content. Already far along the path to freedom.

Do you know why children feel free? It's because they don't take unto themselves what is not theirs. For them, everything belongs to God. And they would have it no other way. They 'share' in this gift that is the world and are free. You too can share in this gift. All you have to do is let go.

Everything belongs to God. Here is the wisdom children already know and adults struggle to remember. Nothing is ours. A bitter pill for those who pursue the world, but a sweet remedy for those who desire freedom above all else.

The world is the great temptation. The great test. Those who chase the world have the world, but those who desire God above all else have peace of spirit. They made the choice to be free rather than happy.

Find your freedom in God, and have your heaven on Earth

The way to freedom is not with force but with love. Do not fight the world. Do not battle it. Forgive it. Then move towards the freedom that can only be found in God

Independence existed for individual before liberty was established for all.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.

The world is not a prison house, but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.

no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Whether we are considering a toothache, a tumor, a relational bind, a technical problem, crime, or the economy, most individuals and most social systems, irrespective of their culture, gender, or ethnic background, will "naturally" choose or revert to chronic conditions of bearable pain rather than face the temporarily more intense anguish of acute conditions that are the gateway to becoming free.

Since then they have pulled our ploughs and borne our loads,But that free servitude still can pierce our hearts.Our life is changed; their coming our beginning.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

A conscientious slave is a thousand times greater than a conscienceless free person.

A state or person that depends on others factually stays deprived of actual freedom.

An employee, whatever profession holds, cannot execute freedom and neutrality, accordingly in its real and pure concept and context since cord and rope of that, drive and twist the owner of it, with its beneficial prospects. Every human breathes, as under the restrictions; thereupon talking and claiming freedom and neutrality mirror only self-misleading.

Don't be a coward, and neither beg your Freedom nor forget your Rights and stand firm in front of tyranny.

Elections, in a democratic way, mean not that the elected party and its leaders respect the democratic system; practically, nowhere exists real democracy.