A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

In true love, you attain freedom.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.

In true love, you attain freedom. When you love, you bring freedom to the person you love. If the opposite is true, it is not true love. You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. (p.4, Shambhala Publications)

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

The church's ... certainty is bound to certain norms and ... a feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty ... it is not the certainty, but the truth in the certainty that makes us free ... there is a way of understanding Holy Scripture that does not estrange us from the gospel.

The freedom of the man of God has nothing to do with autonomy and does not stand opposed to submission to God.

It is this strict side of the ascetic's life that is perhaps the least understood, not only by our culture, but also by other Christians. Especially among evangelicals, who champion salvation by grace through faith, a strict faith can seem perilously close to legalism; and in some cases, it might be. For healthy ascetics, however, strictness is a cherished method of expressing love for God.

I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.