Quotes about Freedom

Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.

Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.

I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.

I needed to let go of the idea of a God who was mad at me for feeling how I was feeling. Now, I bask in an understanding of the divine that delights in truth and the complexities of the human experience - even when it's not very 'clean.'

I had no memory at all of Sarah and I was completely free from anxiety, jealousy, insecurity, hate: my mind was a blank sheet on which somebody had just been on the point of writing a message of happiness. I felt sure that when my memory came back, the writing would continue and that I should be happy.

One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility.

Love must be chosen. It must be free, and it must be from the heart, without external motivations. But, quite frankly, it's very difficult for an all-powerful God to behave in such a way that love can occur with these qualities.

Our choices matter. Much hangs in the balance. Our freedom is God's risk and our dignity.

Where the Holy Spirit is moving, sick people will be free to be unhealthy and thus will be free to be healed.

Love must always start free—but its goal is to become unfree. To be unable not to love is the highest form of freedom in love.