Quotes about Freedom

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present.

The critical issue on the journey with God is not "Am I happy?" but "Am I free?

By the very act of refusing to succumb to the enormous pressure of Western culture around us, we, too, serve as a sign of a free people. We have been called out of a world trying to prove its worth and value by what it does or possesses. We are deeply loved by God for who we are, not for what we do.

The great news of Christianity is that your biological family of origin does not determine your future.

Our debts (sins) are cancelled.

Our goal is the same: union with God in Christ, transformation into his image, and the freeing of our hearts from anything that stands in the way of Christ living in and through us.

True freedom comes when we no longer need to be somebody special in other people's eyes because we know we are loveable and good enough.

Sadly, when we look deep beneath the surface of our lives, most of us are not doing anything fundamentally differently from what our families did. God's intention, however, is that our local churches and parishes are to be places where, slowly but surely, we are re-parented on doing life Christ's way. God intends that his new community of people be the place where we are set free.

Simplicity The primary issue here is to remove distractions and remain free from attachments.