Quotes About Liberation

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.

Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.

Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

The gospel is the good news that God is doing a completely new thing in Jesus - demonstrating divine righteousness, making people right in relationship to God and each other, forgiving sins, liberating from the prison of Sin. Such a gospel frees from guilt - actions that break covenant with God - and overcomes shame - makes right the broken relationships that put people down and make them angry. God's salvation restores shalom.

you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

To use history is the only alternative to remaining its slave. To escape a continuing bondage to the past, we must understand the past. Only thus can we make it our servant and instrument, and not leave it our master.

Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

she'd called me wanting to get out

Learning about the past liberates the learner from oppressions earlier constructions of the past have imposed upon them.

A year of weekly paychecks had created a severe dependency in me, and I desperately needed to break it.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

To leave the everpresent tension of Great Meadow was like shedding stiff, formal clothes or kicking off pinching shoes.