Quotes About Freedom

Jesus weeps for you and with you, longs for you, hopes for you, dreams of you, and rejoices over you with singing. He is the One who has battled all the forces of hell to free you and who battles still.

When you like yourself, you are free to enjoy others, and in your presence people experience an invitation to become and enjoy who they truly are.

We can be so free. It all begins here—with an internal choice to let Christ so invade our hearts that we cannot be held to any sort of bondage internally. We choose to love, to forgive; we choose not to fear; we choose life.

How do we live in freedom? We live in freedom when we come to believe, know, receive, and embrace the boundless love of God for us—when we are captured by his goodness, his faithfulness, his honor, his sacrifice, his heart that yearns for us. Then we can dance for an audience of One. Because we are so completely loved. We are safe and secure in the love of God. Every moment of our lives.

Offenses that are held on to lead to death.

God is not going to love me any more or any differently when and if I finally lose this weight and become free from the stranglehold of food. Jesus's love for me, my Father's love for me, never changes.

I believe God is in the business of setting us free, making each of us into the woman he always wanted us to be. The woman we always wanted to be. Sometimes he does it with the flip of a switch. But not most of the time (as you well know). Most of the time God invites us into a process of change—a process where by his grace we can rise to the occasion of our lives. But before we talk about that process, there are a few things we need to get straight.

The purposes of Jesus Christ are not finished when one of this precious ones is forgiven. Not at all. Would a good father feel satisfied when his daughter is rescued from a car accident, but left in the ICU? Doesn't he want her to be healed as well?... Now the Son of God has come to ransom you, and to heal your broken, wounded heart, and to set you free from bondage.

A grateful heart is a heart that is free. An ungrateful heart is a heart that is bound. Gratitude inevitably leads to freedom.

Ogni notte è meravigliosa quando torni vivo da un campo di battaglia, o esci da un ospedale, o lasci una prigione, bella è la gioia degli scampati, dei guariti, dei salvi, anche se sarà breve.

Io credo che esisteranno sempre l'intelligenza, la voglia di libertà, l'eros e le sale da ballo - ha detto il nonno - ma la parola speranza non mi sento più di pronunciarla

Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

I want to stay young and pure and free, unstained by the sin of Eve.

Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own.

I don't think you can appreciate the simplicity of freedom until you've suffered. She

No one owns me, she said. No one. No matter what binds me. No matter what shackles hold me. No matter what I am compelled to do. I am the only one who holds my heart.

By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to imagine.

The experience of nirvana marks a turning point in an individual's life, not a final and immutable goal. After the experience one knows that one is free not to act on the impulses that naturally arise in reaction to a given situation.

But, yeah, it was a totally weird place, looking back. But the right kind of weird. Good weird. The nuns had a lot of freedom. We read Carl Sagan before the Old Testament.

Blake's Seven.

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.

ten years of whorehouse joy I'm alone now in the mountains the pines are like a jail the wind scratches my skin Ikky

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is.