Quotes About Freedom

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.

We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month, or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don't be surprised when it leaves, either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it.

If he wants me to stay away, he should leave me alone.

All the things you've been trying to get from these relationships—freedom, understanding, fairness, acceptance—are exactly the things that you never got from your mom. So every time you load all that unfinished business onto your partner, you're setting yourself up for another disappointment. Because as an adult, the only person who can give you those things is you.

Love is a cage only when you feel indebted to it, constrained by it, responsible to its owner.

All the things you've been trying to get from these relationships—freedom, understanding, fairness, acceptance—are exactly the things that you never got from your mom.

Rather than having actual freedom, it seemed that, like animals in a habitat in the zoo, we had only the illusion of freedom. As long as we didn't try to leave the cage, we'd never know we weren't actually free.

The days and nights spent imprisoned in her house doing nothing were getting to me. I refuse to take time for granted. One

If I want true freedom, I need to accept that the path leading there is going to be one of discomfort and vulnerability.

You are not who you are in Christ because of the things you have done; you are in Christ because of what He has done. He died and rose again so that you and I could live in the freedom of His love.

Christ has done everything necessary for us to be free. He wants us to be free so much that He gave Himself as a ransom to die on a cross. Then He gave Himself to us. We are one with Christ because our souls are in union with Him. There is nothing else God needs to do for us to be free.

Rich Miller, Letting Go of Fear (Harvest House Publishers, 2018).

18). If you want the truth to set you free, you have to know who the Truth is, not just what it is.

discipulado en consejería es un intento de ir al encuentro de la persona allí donde está y ayudarla a resolver sus conflictos personales y espirituales de manera que pueda quedar establecida en la vida y la libertad que tiene en Cristo.

Individual freedom must be established before corporate freedom can be realized, but

Jesus is the Truth, and He is the One who sets the captive free. Power for the believer comes in knowing and choosing the truth. We are to pursue truth because we already have all the power we need in Christ (see Ephesians 1:18-19). Furthermore, people in bondage are not liberated by what I do as a pastor, but by what they choose to believe, confess, renounce, and forgive.

We shouldn't avoid sin because we fear eternal damnation. We should do so because we no longer want to live in bondage….

This place is so small you have to go outside to change your mind.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

The Cubans say that sex is the only thing that Castro hasn't rationed.

Well, no one ever said the truth would make you happy—only free.

Well, sonny, in my country, gun control means using both hands.

You criminalize what normal people want, and you make everybody a criminal. And when everybody's a criminal, nobody's a criminal.

The least free people in a free society are people like us who have a sworn duty to defend the constitution.