Quotes about Free

God has loved us first, and he has made us for himself. He "desires" our love, and so he leaves us free, for true love cannot be coerced.

It is at this point that the gospel differs most from philosophy, since it teaches that the salvation of men is through the free remission of sins.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).

God resists our evil and conquers it with good, or how could God ask the same of us?! Think about that. God shocks and stuns us into love. God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change. Only love effects true inner transformation, not duress, guilt, shunning, or social pressure. Love is not love unless it is totally free. Grace is not grace unless it is totally free. You would think Christian people would know that by now, but it is still a secret of the soul.

Make ready for the Christ, whose smile like lightning, sets free the song of everlasting glory that now sleeps—in your paper flesh. Thomas Merton

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.