Quotes about Liberation

And yet I know that in her death, she has found the freedom she could not find in life. She is no longer confined to a room, a bed, and a body that no longer works.

I hate wearing shirts.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Deep in our hearts everyone walks free.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

The tyrant of Syracuse once went to the slavephilosopher Epictetus and told him, "I'll pay the ransom for you and you will be liberated " Epictetus replied, "Why do you care about me? Free yourself." "But I am a king," said the amazed tyrant. "This I contest," was the answer of the philosopher. "He who masters his passions is a king even while in chains. He who is ruled by his passions is a slave even while sitting on a throne.

When the gospel is understood primarily in terms of entrance rather than joyous participation, it can actually serve to cut people off from the explosive, liberating experience of the God who is an endless giving circle of joy and creativity.

Why didn't they just skip the whole sacrificial system all together? That would have been amazing. Just scrap the whole thing. Announce that the final sacrifice has been offered and there's no more need to do such things. Declare that the temple is going to be torn down. Proclaim that it is finished. Oh wait, we're getting ahead of ourselves, aren't we? (Please tell me you enjoyed that last paragraph.)

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.