Oh, how I longed to be with Christ, to be employed in the glorious work of angels, and with an angel’s freedom, vigour, and delight! And yet how willing was I to stay awhile on earth, that I might do something, if the Lord pleased, for his interest in the world!
—David Brainerd
Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.
—D. L. Moody
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
—George Orwell
Our strange people – both strong and sad… Had heroes – and no one knew them… Always loved freedom – and always lived as a slave… Created the riches of songs – and does not know them…
The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All you need to do is abandon established customs & superstitions & look at the position of every person who lives under a government, whether it be a despotic or the most democratic, & you’ll be horrified at the degree of slavery in which people live while imagining they’re free
—Leo Tolstoy
If a person understands his life is in his soul and not his body, you can put him in chains or lock him in iron locks and he’ll still remain free.
—Leo Tolstoy
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.
Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
—Sun Tzu
Now, this *bunch* of hyssop, wherein the blood of purification was prepared for the sprinkling of the unclean, is (unto us) the free promises of Christ.
—John Owen
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
—Sigmund Freud
Each of us only needs one thing: a heart beating within us that’s free of blame, contempt, irritation, and ill will toward others. Therefore, every act that makes you irritated with people and distances you from them rather than bringing you closer to them is a waste.
—Leo Tolstoy
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.
—Sigmund Freud
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
—Aldous Huxley
Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.
—D. L. Moody
I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The spirit of a nation is reflected in its history, its religion, and the degree of its political freedom.
—Georg Hegel
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
—Voltaire
If you want to be free, first of all free yourself from your stomach.
—Leo Tolstoy
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. – C.S. Lewis
I formd them free, and free they must remain.
—John Milton
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
—Michelangelo
The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; only the sculptor’s hand can break the spell to free the figures.
—Michelangelo
I know CHRIST is all in all. Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till GOD worketh in him to will and to do after his good pleasure.
—George Whitefield
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
—Franz Kafka
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
—Franz Kafka
Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Pardoning mercy is God’s free, gracious acceptance of a sinner upon satisfaction made to his justice in the blood of Jesus
—John Owen
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.
—Stephen Hawking