Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 3:17
Coercion from outside, strong temperamental inclinations and passions within ourselves, do nothing to effect the essence of our freedom. They simply define its action by imposing certain limits on it.
— Thomas Merton
If these seeds would take root in my liberty, and if His will would grow from my freedom, I would become the love that He is, and my harvest would be His glory and my own joy. And
— Thomas Merton
Bells] speak to us of our freedom, which responsibilities and transient cares make us forget.
— Thomas Merton
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
— Calvin Coolidge
Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw
— Candace Bushnell
I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.
— Isabel Allende
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
— Maya Angelou
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
— Abraham Lincoln
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
— Oscar Wilde
The young Cambridge group, the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring, sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.
— DH Lawrence
I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.
— George W. Bush
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
— Victor Hugo