Quotes about Freedom
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.
- Desmond Tutu
If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?
- Elie Wiesel
Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
- Frederick Douglass
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
- George W. Bush
If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.
- Gordon Hinckley
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.
- Gordon Hinckley
Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.
- Greg Koukl
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.
- Henry B. Eyring
Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.
- Herman Melville
I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.
- Joel Osteen
Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.
- John Calvin