Quotes About Freedom

You are really and truly and completely free. There is no kicker. There is no if, and, or but. You are free. You can do it right or wrong. You can obey or disobey. You can run from Christ or run to Christ. You can choose to become a faithful Christian or an unfaithful Christian. You can cry, cuss, and spit, or laugh, sing, and dance. You can read a novel or the Bible. You can watch television or pray. You're free...really free.

God save me from politicians, Christians, or pagans who think they are my mother!

If Jesus said we're free, we ought to accept his declaration at face value and run with it. It ought to help us define ourselves. But it doesn't. Christians will do almost anything to get away from the simple meaning of the word and the wonderful experience of freedom.

You are really and truly and completely free.

Until a Christian struggles with the issue of freedom, he or she will remain frightened, obsessive, and bound.

Our freedom has been taken away because we thought that we couldn't be free unless we were perfect.

Whenever a new Christian comes into the church, I wince a bit, because I'm afraid that they will get the "religion disease," that the "church virus" will kill off the joy and freedom Jesus purchased on the cross to give them.

Perfectionism robs you of your freedom.

There really is something neurotic about Christians who spend most of their time trying desperately to please a God who is already very pleased. They don't have any freedom, and they sometimes take away the freedom of others.

I can think of hardly anything that will kill your joy and freedom more than wearing a mask geared to get others to accept you because you are acting like them.

Responsibility is powerful when thought of in its positive sense. It is the ability to choose our responses.

I was at a Byron Katie seminar once when I heard her say something I never forgot. She said, "Do you know what I love most about the past? It's over!

Peacefully taking a sword to all those negative, frightening, depressing thoughts that are automatically believed… so that a great, timeless, active day can be created. A day with no time in it unless you want to make some.

Coaching, so you are no longer needed.

What we are engaged in creating is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of people's lives and of life itself. This context of transformation is a context of freedom and opportunity, of empowerment and human joy, of contribution and of participation. Participation in this transformation is, for me, the fullest expression of being. ~ Werner Erhard

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. Rumi

Everything that's truly irrevocable finally has to do with love or freedom, but whether you act in the name of the first or the second, one of them ultimately bows to the other and that's the most irrevocable thing of all.

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

Of course, we can't just drop our notion of self as we would remove a garment. It's a rather compelling illusion. … [However, o]nce it's seen that the 'I' cannot be found the mind is free[.]

L]iberation [doesn't occur] in wearing robes or performing ritual acts.

We move through the world in a narrow groove, preoccupied with the petty things we see and hear, brooding over our prejudices, passing by the joys of life without even knowing that we have missed anything. Never for a moment do we taste the heady wine of freedom. We are as truly imprisoned as if we lay at the bottom of a dungeon, heaped with chains.

Clinging to any entity—including self, other, cat, or God—puts us into a conceptual prison. This is true of all beliefs, all grasped concepts. They all obstruct true Religious Experience—direct experience of Reality.

Give your mind a lot of space and it quiets down; try to control, quiet, or restrict it, and it goes wild.

W]ith the sense of self gone, ... actions naturally become uncalculated and free.