Quotes about Freedom
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
— Charles Swindoll
The right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.
— Ronald Reagan
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to stand up for freedom together...
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us be like that unafraid bird Lighted upon a twig that swings Feeling it yield but singing on— For knowing that he has wings!
— Victor Hugo
The dream is one of equality and opportunity... men will dare to live together as brothers... Whenever it is fulfilled, we will emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into the bright and glowing daybreak of freedom and justice for all of God's children.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no such thing as time to a man in a summer vacation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.
— Hannah More
Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the dwelling place of God, all these supposes vanish and we shall be free from fear.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Almightiness consists much less in that which human beings imagine it to be, namely, changing things in accordance with one's own will—Jesus proved, through his miracles, that he could do that, too—than in exerting an influence on the freedom of human hearts without overpowering them. Enticing forth from them, through the mysterious power of grace, their free assent to the truly good.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
God is so wide that, within his spaciousness, even the longing for unfulfillable longing can soar freely.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar