Freedom Quotes - Page 17

Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs down a person’s potential.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force.

A child comes from God, a child
is a gift from God, but a child is
not our possession.

Give the child unconditional love
and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way.

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace.

I had a dove and the sweet dove died;
And I have thought it died of grieving:
O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied,
With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

There is a fundamental tension between science and freedom - no matter how science is viewed by its practitioners nor how freedom is sensed by those who believe they have it.

This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone avails, humanistic science, the ideal of the free and beautiful human being.

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/

The key of life symbolizes the map of existence. Once you free yourself from all resistance, your path will become white for the remainder of the distance.

What is freedom of speech if it does not include freedom to deny and offend others' faith and believes.....

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

I have long left the notion of guessing the mind of God.

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.

You are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to dictate mine.