Quotes About Liberation

Joy is the keynote of all the Disciplines. The purpose of the Disciplines is liberation from the stifling slavery to selfinterest and fear.

Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust...They point us toward a way of living in which everything we have we receive as a gift, and everything we have is cared for by God, and everything we have is available to others when it is right and good. This reality frames the heart of Christian simplicity. It is the means of liberation and power to do what is right and to overcome the forces of fear and avarice.

Home late. Be naked.

His liberators were leaving the freedman to wither on the vine.

Es mejor liberar que esclavizar; y la liberación es el único camino que permite a los equipos y a los individuos llegar al máximo nivel de logro placentero.

That's actually a very liberating expectation, expecting to fail," he has said.

Trapped inside the snotrag," Keith said, "is a crumb of angel food trying to get out." Lana

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.

Not giving a shit, she decided, is like the defrost option on a car's heater that miraculously unfogs the windshield, allowing you to see where you're headed.

I cut off my head and threw it in the sky.

His hands keep turning into birds, and his hands keep flying away from him. Eventually the birds must land. - Unfinished Duet

the horses running until they forget that they are horses.

That was the moment when I understood more clearly than ever before that the liberation struggle was not so much about liberating blacks from bondage, it was about liberating white people from fear.

Liberation is not a state, you cannot achieve it and there is no future.

At death there is only liberation. It is just more chic to see liberation when you are alive." Max Furlaud in a private conversation

He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

You got me a 'congratulations on getting out of re-education' gift?

Los problemas crecen en la oscuridad y se agrandan, pero cuando son expuestos a la luz de la verdad, se minimizan. Solo, estás tan enfermo como tus secretos. Así que quítate la máscara, deja de disimular que eres perfecto y camina hacia la liberación.

God is not a cruel slave driver or a bully who uses brute force to coerce us into submission. He doesn't try to break our will, but woos us to himself so that we might offer ourselves freely to him. God is a lover and a liberator, and surrendering to him brings freedom, not bondage. When we completely surrender ourselves to Jesus, we discover that he is not a tyrant, but a savior; not a boss, but a brother; not a dictator, but a friend.

Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...

When the gospel is understood primarily in terms of entrance rather than joyous participation, it can actually serve to cut people off from the explosive, liberating experience of the God who is an endless giving circle of joy and creativity.

When so much gets left behind, you discover that you're fine. You've got a little fear, like a fly buzzing around your head, but you're fine. You're also free. What a gift.