Quotes About Freedom

Victory is possible. Genuine healing can occur if we're willing to allow the Father to set us free.

And I may return in faded armor Full of patches bent and aged. And I may face the heat of battle, To free the damned and free the slaves. And I may know both pain and rejection, The betrayal of my friends. But the glory that awaits me, Will make it worth it in the end—in the end.

Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.

You should forgive too. There is no telling what God wants to do through you or through the person who hurt you. The one thing you do know is that as long as you harbor unforgiveness, you're not going to be free. So don't be afraid to let God handle the situation. His plan of justice for your offender may surprise you.

Master, because You live inside me, I have new and glorious freedom. Remove the distractions. Still my restless heart. Let the new me emerge.

Friend, it takes courage to put down the burdens from your past—especially if they've become part of your identity. But if you're wise, you will release them to the Father so He can set you free from the bondage they cause and make you whole.

Remember, sin enslaves its victims. With despair and confusion as constant companions, the captive doesn't know the way to freedom. But believers do—and we should share the message of hope with them.

The Lord desires to heal you to the core of your being—even in the places you've forgotten exist. So listen to Him and deal with whatever He surfaces, confident He is leading you to freedom.

make amends to those you've hurt, and forgive anyone who has wounded you. If He does, then obey Him immediately. But then move on. Don't continue to beat yourself up over something that God has forgiven. True, you may still have to live with consequences related to your choices. But the Father doesn't want you to live with unresolved guilt, shame, or regret. Seek Him and be free.

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

Carried down my last number to the Advocate. They will not publish the letters I wish. So much for the freedom of that press.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.

it has always been a premise that compelled belief is not true faith, that man can come to salvation only if he comes freely, and therefore, in the end, that a man is responsible for his own soul. This element, of course, becomes central in Protestant theology, which emphasizes each individual's personal and unmediated relationship to God. The individual's capacity and therefore right to judge both truth and goodness was a premise of the Enlightenment.

A martyr to the cause of man, His blood is freedom's eucharist, And in the world's great hero list His name shall lead the van.

Allowing people the freedom to pursue their own interests (within the limits of just conduct) is the best and only sustainable way to achieve societal progress. For individuals to develop and have a chance at happiness, they must be free to make their own choices and mistakes, rather than be forced to accept choices made for them by others.

The possibility of men living together in peace and to their mutual advantage, without having to agree on common concrete aims, and bound only by abstract rules of conduct, was perhaps the greatest discovery mankind ever made.

Societies that don't embrace freedom wind up with the least prosperity. Venezuela is a country rich in natural resources, yet after just fourteen years under a socialist government, it now rations food, electricity, water, and other staples.

Life for the overwhelming majority of people who haven't been blessed to live in a free society has been, as Hobbes put it, "poor, nasty, brutish, and short."8

The growth of Sentiment is the increase of suffering; man is never entirely miserable until he finds out how wronged he is and fancies that he sees far ahead a possible freedom.

Let your imagination take you wherever you want to be.

Trapped by reality, freed by imagination.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest.

Gentlemen, bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.