Quotes about Freedom
Let us remember, therefore, that will in man is one thing, and the free choice of good and evil another: for freedom of choice having been taken away after the fall of the first man, will alone was left; but so completely captive under the tyranny of sin, that it is only inclined to evil.
— John Calvin
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?
— John Calvin
Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly
— John Calvin
We remain exposed to the judgment of God, we are bound by miserable chains, and therefore our exemption from guilt, becomes an invaluable freedom.
— John Calvin
For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.
— John Calvin
Full nakedness! All joyes are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be, To taste whole joyes.
— John Donne
If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
— Dallas Willard
Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
— Henry David Thoreau
The more you connect to the Power within you, the more you can be free in all areas of your life.
— Louise Hay
The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.
— Maya Angelou
However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.
— Mike Pence