Many in our society want the benefits of freedom without its responsibilities and boundaries. They want "God bless America," but not one nation under God.

My soul felt free. I was amazed that I ever desired to satisfy my taste buds over satisfying my desire to break free from all the guilt, all the destruction, all the defeat.

Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it be in hazard by the law, what running, riding, posting, suing, bribing, and if all will not serve, what breaking prison is there for it!

I have always claimed America didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

It would seem as if there never was a book written, or a story told, expressly with the object of keeping boys on shore, which did not lure and charm them to the ocean, as a matter of course.

The intention of God is that we should each become the kind of person whom he can set free in his universe, empowered to do what we want to do. Just as we desire and intend this, so far as possible, for our children and others we love, so God desires and intends it for his children. But character, the inner directedness of the self, must develop to the point where that is possible.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

selfishness, or a desire to avoid responsibility.

It's unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we've prayed to be released from.

There is also a false serenity that is not at all Christian. We need feel no shame as Christians about a measure of impatience, longing, protest against what is unnatural, and a strong measure of desire for freedom and earthly happiness and the capacity to effect change.