Quotes related to Isaiah 61:1
The day is brimming with freedom. He took another draw of the air. There's nothing like the clean smell of freedom, wouldn't you say Eden?
— Ted Dekker
Whoever said that a straightened hand was more dramatic than a healed heart anyway? -the character Dr. Paul Thompson from Blessed Child
— Ted Dekker
This is our revolution in Yeshua: to be free from the prisons that hold us captive.
— Ted Dekker
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The essence of our struggle is that men shall be free.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every tone [of the songs of the slaves] was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
— Frederick Douglass
The institutional church has become a wounder of the healers rather than a healer of the wounded.
— Brennan Manning
The decision to come out of hiding is our initiation rite into the healing ministry of Jesus Christ. It brings its own reward. We stand in the Truth that sets us free and live out of the Reality that makes us whole.
— Brennan Manning
We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world.
— Henri Nouwen
Our brokenness is truly ours. Nobody else's. Our brokenness is as unique as our chosenness and our blessedness. The way we are broken is as much an expression of our individuality as the way we are taken and blessed.
— Henri Nouwen
The great spiritual call of the Beloved Children of God is to pull their brokenness away from the shadow of the curse and put it under the light of the blessing.
— Henri Nouwen
Nowadays, men wear a fool's-cap, and call it a liberty-cap. I do not know but there are some who, if they were tied to a whipping-post, and could but get one hand free, would use it to ring the bells and fire the cannons to celebrate THEIR liberty. So some of my townsmen took the liberty to ring and fire. That was the extent of their freedom; and when the sound of the bells died away, their liberty died away also; when the powder was all expended, their liberty went off with the smoke.
— Henry David Thoreau