Quotes about Freedom

The spiritual life is always about letting go of unnecessary baggage so that we're prepared for death's final letting go.

We have been graced for a truly sweet surrender, if we can radically accept being radically accepted—for nothing! "Or grace would not be grace at all"! (Romans 11:6).

Before Jesus, it was all about earning and meriting and performing, and Paul knew that would eat us all alive—as it has.

The language of patriarchy is always a noble or macho language of patriotism and freedom. Men (and their female echoes) are always speaking it, but the amazing thing is that anyone is still willing to believe it. But fortunately the poor, the oppressed and marginalized, and especially women are beginning to trust their natural and truly religious instincts.

Good religion keeps God free for people and keeps people free for God. You cannot improve on that.

you no longer need to protect or defend the mere part. You are now connected to something inexhaustible.

Some form of alternative consciousness is the only freedom from these addictions and from cultural lies. If the universal addiction is to our own

There is Someone dancing with you and you no longer need to prove to anyone that you are right, nor are you afraid of making mistakes. Another word for that is faith.

The only free positions in this world are at the bottom and at the edges of things.

God does not come uninvited. God and grace cannot enter without an opening from our side, or we would be mere robots. God does not want robots, but lovers who freely choose to love in return for love. And toward that supreme end, God seems quite willing to wait, cajole, and entice.

God seems ready and willing to wait for, and to empower, free will and a free "yes." Love only happens in the realm of freedom.

In general, we taught that love and action were more important than intellect or speculative truth. Love is the highest category for the Franciscan School (the goal), and we believe that authentic love is not possible without true inner freedom of conscience,18 nor will love be real or tested unless we somehow live close to the disadvantaged (its method), who remind us about what is important.