Quotes about Freedom

I don't think anybody in America ought to be scared.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

I like to be outdoors as much as possible.

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.

We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom : the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul with heaven dipped ink

A soul is only set free when it becomes constrained by the bonds of love.

If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards—you are going deeper.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.