Freedom Quotes - Page 12

If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.

Give me liberty or give me death."

[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]

...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

Carmen will always be free.

You can't make me do nothing but die!

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

It doesn't sound logical to say
that a man is an atheist
just because he's probably someone
who knows his own God...personally.

If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

Independence is counterfeit freedom. We think if we can make all our own choices and do our own thing, we will be free. But the opposite is true. By trying to be independent, we are attempting to take God’s place as the ruler of our lives. We can never succeed at creating happiness because we are the created, not the Creator.

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)

Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.

Let me be me, or let me be.

There is nothing a man can do to liberate himself if his time of divine liberation has not come. But when the time comes, nothing can stop it.

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."
He laughs.