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The key players, it turns out, are those who refuse to be credentialed or curbed by traditional modes of power, who understand that the transformative power of truth is not a credible companion for consolidating modes of established power, but that truth characteristically runs beyond the confines of such power.
- Walter Brueggemann
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
- Wendell Berry
I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Wendell Berry
Denounce the government and embracethe flag. Hope to live in that freerepublic for which it stands.
- Wendell Berry
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
- Wendell Berry
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of the will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
- Dante Alighieri
Things not going your way? Are you facing hardships? What an opportunity to experience true freedom. Take this season to focus on desiring God's will in every area of your life. Then celebrate the freedom of living life as God intended you to.
- Darlene Zschech
He had let go of the need to earn God's love
- James Bryan Smith
Because the greatest value for this generation is nothing less than individual freedom.
- James Emery White
The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.
- James H. Cone
But there is no perfect guide for discerning God's movement in the world, Contrary to what many conservatives say, the Bible is not a blueprint on this matter. It is a valuable symbol for point to God's revelation in Jesus, but it is not self-interpreting. We are thus place in an existential situation of freedom in which the burden is on us to make decisions without a guaranteed ethical guide.
- James H. Cone
Unlike Europeans who immigrated to this land to escape from tyranny, Africans came in chains to serve a nation of tyrants.
- James H. Cone