Quotes About Freedom

The purpose of God's grace is to free you from your slavery to you so that you can live for a much, much better kingdom:

What we need most is a heart ruled by the Lord rather than by "evil desires." We need to be progressively freed from our slavery to the god-replacements that imprison us in self-absorbed pursuit of our own glory.

In calling me to deny myself, God is freeing me from my bondage to me. Self-focus never leads to happiness, it never produces contentment, and it never results in a satisfied heart.

If you have been freed from needing success and acclaim to feel good about yourself, you know grace has visited you.

your acceptance is based on Christ's righteousness and not yours.

When you are satisfied with the Giver, because you have found in him the life you were looking for, you are freed from the ravenous quest for satisfaction that is the discouraging existence of so many people. Yes, it is true that your heart will rest only ever when it has found its rest in him.

No, the message is that God puts an uncompromising standard before us, then sends his Son to perfectly meet that standard on our behalf, so that we can be free to admit our failures and go to God for help. The cross of Jesus Christ means I don't have to deny my struggle as a parent, I don't have to act as if I'm something that I'm not, and I surely don't have to hide from the only One who is able to help me.

This is the upside-down world of ministry calling. The pathway to freedom is servanthood, the pathway to greatness is slavery, and the pathway to deep and lasting joy—joy that people and circumstance cannot take away—is denying yourself

When you begin to understand what you have been given in his right here, right now grace, you quit asking people, places, and things to be your savior. Because you know what he thinks of you, you are free to worry less about what the person next to you thinks. That's a freedom many of us could use!

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

The cross teaches that you are not stuck, not cursed to pay forever for your past.

It contradicts our normal thinking, but the doorway to freedom is submission. When I acknowledge that I am a danger to myself and submit to the authority, wisdom, and grace of God, I am not killing any hope I have for freedom. The opposite is true.

No podemos gloriarnos en aquello de lo que nos libera la gracia, sin aceptar también aquello a lo que nos llama.

Hij zei: 'Filip, schep het verleden om vrij te zijn voor de toekomst. Trek je eigen karikatuur en je bent ervan af.' Hij antwoordde: 'Goed Filip, maar wat met de schuwe wezel van het schuldgevoel, het vlugge nooit voldane roofdier?

If a woman does marry, I suggest she has her own bed.

Harriet, Georgiana, and Bess formed a bond so tight that Harriet would later say it "made it a rule never to conceal anything great or small from each other than concerned ourselves, and never to import anything that concerned our respective friends unless by their desire or consent." These women formed a confederacy of feminine freedom-a freedom they vigorously exercised.

Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

I can imagine that some of my Buddhist friends, having read the above description of my struggles with a God-as-You, might scratch their heads and ask: "What's the problem? For us, no God, therefore no person, therefore no problem." I admire their immunity and freedom from such difficulties. But I am, or I want to be, a Christian.

For me death is just moving from one school into another. But there's going to be a difference, because in that new school I shall have wings so I wont need to walk up and down the stairs!

I said, "Nég Mawon toujou kanpé!!" —the free man is still standing!! And she replied, powerfully. "Cheri, Nég Mawon p'ap jamn krazé" —my dear, the free man will never be broken.

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Do what you like, so long as it is intelligent.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.