Quotes about Freedom

To most people at the time it was unthinkable that religion might ever not be what it was then. However, Bryce mused, if religion in America were ever to lose its strength and authority, the result would be "the completest revolution of all." The strongest bonding in American society would have gone, and unbounded freedom would run amok and work to cause its own undoing.

For anyone who understands freedom, it is simply inescapable that freedom requires truth, a shared sense of truth, and therefore trustworthiness and trust.

Without truth there is no freedom, and without truth there is no freedom from hypocrisy. No one has ever seriously accused Jesus of hypocrisy, no one has ever been more severe on hypocrisy than Jesus, and no one has ever offered a sterner but more gracious and effective cure to hypocrisy than Jesus.

For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

but conformity to the will and the way of Jesus is life and freedom itself—under his authority.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us.

That Christ died for me, and therefore I am completely free from penalty, is never taught in the New Testament.

That Christ died for me, and therefore I am completely free from penalty, is never taught in the New Testament. What is taught in the New Testament is that "He died for all" (2 Corinthians 5:15)—not, "He died my death"—and that through identification with His death I can be freed from sin, and have His very righteousness imparted as a gift to me.