Quotes about Liberation
Having money is a way of being free of money.
— Albert Camus
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.
— Albert Einstein
There are two ways of being a prophet. One is to tell the enslaved that they can be free. It is the difficult path of Moses. The second is to tell those who think they are free that they are in fact enslaved. This is the even more difficult path of Jesus.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way unnatural or supernatural . . . (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process . . . make mistakes.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The New Testament called it salvation or enlightenment, the Twelve Step Program called it recovery. The trouble is that most Christians pushed this great liberation off into the next world, and many Twelve Steppers settled for mere sobriety from a substance instead of a real transformation of the self. We have all been the losers, as a result—waiting around for "enlightenment at gunpoint" (death) instead of enjoying God's banquet much earlier in life.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Before the truth 'sets you free', it tends to make you miserable.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The healthy do not need a doctor, but sick people do. I have not come to coddle the comfortable, but to set trapped people free for a new life." Luke 5:31—32
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If people are to develop any deep spirituality today, and especially if men are to develop spiritually, they need to be liberated from self-serving worldviews.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Good religion keeps God free for people and keeps people free for God. You cannot improve on that.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The only free positions in this world are at the bottom and at the edges of things.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
To preach the Reign of God, dear brothers and sisters, we have to break with our dependency on a perfectible self.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The trouble is that most Christians pushed this great liberation off into the next world, and many Twelve Steppers settled for mere sobriety from a substance instead of a real transformation of the self. We have all been the losers, as a result—waiting around for "enlightenment at gunpoint" (death) instead of enjoying God's banquet much earlier in life.
— Fr. Richard Rohr