Quotes About Freedom

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.

We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

People are born to be free; it's a gift from God.

When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.

The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

One of the best aids to freedom is asking God for a lot of help-and asking often.

The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and every American can celebrate.

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

Thank God who delivered us from harsh labour.