The insights that freed Jud were similar to the ones that led to my own recovery from spiritual workaholism after being confronted by my boss years ago. I came to realize that God didn't love me because I made myself valuable through service; on the contrary, I was valuable because I was loved by God. I could stop working like a slave to justify myself; I just needed to recognize — and celebrate — my adoption as God's child.

Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.

I don't like belonging to another person's dream

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.

It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

Freedom is now or never.

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.