Quotes about Freedom
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
- St. Augustine
No longer, then, follow after false and deceitful gods; abjure them rather, and despise them, bursting forth into true liberty. Gods they are not, but malignant spirits, to whom your eternal happiness will be a sore punishment.
- St. Augustine
Therefore we are by no means compelled, either, retaining the prescience of God, to take away the freedom of the will, or, retaining the freedom of the will, to deny that He is prescient of future things, which is impious. But we embrace both. We faithfully and sincerely confess both. The former, that we may believe well; the latter, that we may live well.
- St. Augustine
Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave.
- St. Augustine
The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.
- Michael Novak
People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
- Glenn Beck
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
- Herbert Hoover
The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.
- Tullian Tchividjian
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!
- Pope Benedict XVI
Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.
- Marianne Williamson
Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.
- Neil Anderson
To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.
- Watchman Nee