Quotes about Freedom

A soul is only set free when it becomes constrained by the bonds of love.

If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards—you are going deeper.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

If you love something, set it free.If it comes back to you, It is yours.If it doesn't, It never was.

Living toward a world in which these identities no longer divide, but living in a world fundamentally structured by them, Paul takes up and lays down various identities for the sake of the gospel. Though free, he has made himself a slave. For the sake of the gospel, he lives sometimes as one under the Jewish law, other times as one free from it—all while recognizing the truth of his situation as one no longer under "the law" but nevertheless under "Christ's law.

Contrary to the assumptions of Western moral traditions, human beings are (1) not free in their actions but governed by necessity; (2) not transparent to themselves and others in their motivations, but opaque; (3) not similar to each other and therefore subject to the same moral code, but each different.

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It

Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past.