Quotes About Freedom

The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me? No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it liveable? What's going on in the political prisons?

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

We're all the same inside the cage. When they put the collars on us.

I was a spy. I was trusted. Until I changed sides. Funny how that happens. I gave up one country for another. One country for an ideal. I didn't think of it that way at the time. Call me crazy. But I just wanted to be free.

Even before the Civil War, outsiders from Catholic Ireland and from Asia had been made to feel unwelcome in "the land of the free." And this was to say nothing of the black population, whose bondage remained a gross contradiction to the lofty sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all."[77]

she didn't care so much for things; instead, her heart yearned to see new places, and meet new people, she wanted experiences that would inspire her to become greater in spirit, to live as freely, as her heart loved.

Jesus Himself was untamed.

Don't accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences!

In essential things, unity. In nonessential things, freedom. In all things, love.

Faith is unlearning the senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive.

Faith is unlearning the senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive."-Mark Batterson Quote Read: 3/22/19

God can deliver in a day, no doubt. But you've got to back up that deliverance with daily habits that fortify your newfound freedom. If you don't, it'll be short lived. You'll end up right back where you started

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

When you confess your sin, it no longer defines you.

Anyone who values freedom and democracy should fight when they are threatened. Tyranny anywhere in the world must be snuffed out. We in the free world should have learned that in the 1930s, when bullies began to rear their heads in Germany, Italy, and Japan. Tyranny feeds upon itself and spreads like a great cancer. If we do not stop it, then who will?

Different is liberating. Who the hell would want to be the same as everyone else?

The opposite of a slave is not a free man. It's a worshiper. The one who is most free is the one who turns the work of his hands into sacrament, into offering. All he makes and all he does are gifts from God, through God, and to God.

In some ways, the whole point of the Exodus was Sabbath. Let my people go, became God's rallying cry, that they might worship me. At the heart of liberty—of being let go—is worship. But at the heart of worship is rest—a stopping from all work, all worry, all scheming, all fleeing—to stand amazed and thankful before God and his work. There can be no real worship without true rest.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

From time to time,' Turner explained, most people seek to discard their customary clothing and status markers and 'don the liberating masks of a liminal masquerade.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words...

was the sum of my experiences. I was my own person. I was who I needed to be, not what someone else wanted me to be.