Quotes about Freedom
Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.
- John Piper
If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.
- John Piper
The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
- John Piper
Suppose you answer, "I want to be free from self and full of joy in God; I want to enjoy making much of God, not me. And I want the fullness of my joy to last forever." If you respond this way, then you will also have an answer to the fear I mentioned earlier, that you are just being used by God when he creates you for his glory. Now we see that in creating us for his glory, he is creating us for our highest joy. He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
- John Piper
God owns and controls all things. And there is nothing that he could give you for Christmas this year that would suit your needs and your longings better than the consolation of Israel and the redemption of Jerusalem, restoration for past losses and liberation from future enemies, forgiveness and freedom, pardon and power, healing the past and sealing the future.
- John Piper
The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
- John Piper
Don't dwell on your corruption to the degree that it keeps you from joy, freedom, and love.
- John Piper
We know life is short and eternity is long. This eternal perspective does not take us out of the world. It gives us freedom from self-pity.
- John Piper
The only sin that we can defeat is a forgiven sin.
- John Piper
The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.
- John Quincy Adams
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
- John Quincy Adams
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
- John Quincy Adams