Quotes About Freedom

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.

Hi. I'm Spider Jerusalem. I smoke. I take drugs. I drink. I wash every six weeks. I masturbate constantly and fling my steaming poison semen down from my window into your hair and food. I'm a rich and respected columnist for a major metropolitan newspaper. I live with two beautiful women in the city's most expensive and select community. Being a bastard works.

As tranquil streams that meet and merge and flow as one to meet the sea, our kindred hearts and minds unite to build a church that shall be free. Marion Franklin Ham, no. 145

I'm a good dog," says Lynch. "Woof, woof! I had fun. I did exactly what you'd expect a young fucking buck to do when he's off the leash. He fucking runs, shits everywhere, and has a ball. You're supposed to go, 'Get 'em, Bosco!' You're not supposed to train him.

That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.

He could not help, too, rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chuckling with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor. Then, he thought, how soon he'd turn his back upon the old school-house; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade!

The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires of his time. His open eyes must be directed to his inner life and his ears must be constantly attuned to the voice of inner necessity.

La intuición con la que nace el artistas es el talento evangélico que no debe enterrar. El artista que no utiliza sus dotes es un esclavo perezoso.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.

Waylon said it best when he sang to Willy; 'If you see me gettin' smaller, I'm leavin' don't be grievin', just gotta get away from here. If you see me gettin' smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry I've got the right to disappear.

When we come to understand that the Christian life is something that I "get to do," not something I "have to do," then we are coming near to the Christ life.

It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy. . . . It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love." HENRI NOUWEN

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

You can't earn points with someone who is no longer keeping score. Jesus already filled up your card with maximum points. You don't have to earn what he has already freely given; you simply get to receive it.

had it easy. Because he didn't have to run a ministry or manage a congregation, he was free to engage people exactly as he found them. He didn't have to make them do anything for him; thus, he was free to love them and they were free to respond to that love or reject it. He didn't need their tithes to pay his salary, their attendance to validate his ego, or their time to fill out his program.

church of the new creation is more like wildflowers strewn across an alpine meadow than a walled garden with manicured hedges. I realize

The freedom to be honest and the freedom to struggle are key to a real friendship," John said.

purpose was not to make us worthy of God's love, but to set us free to see that we already have it. And

Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

When a fearful people expects everything from its government, tyranny will always arise.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.