Quotes about Freedom
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.
— Rob Bell
Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.
— Ronald Reagan
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
— Desmond Tutu
God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.
— Desmond Tutu
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.
— Desmond Tutu
If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?
— Elie Wiesel
Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
— Frederick Douglass
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
— George W. Bush
If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.
— Gordon Hinckley
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.
— Gordon Hinckley
Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.
— Greg Koukl