The spiritual man would rather be useful than famous & would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.
—AW Tozer
Freedom is participation in power.
—Cicero
For when the sense of religion diminishes, the notion of good and evil is erased, the sense of responsibility and guilt is suppressed, so that passion and lust have free rein and the wickedness of the heart breaks forth openly in the form of shameless evil acts.
—Herman Bavinck
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
There is wonderful freedom in this life of simply following Jesus. This path is straight and plain.
—R. A. Torrey
A truly gracious soul cannot long subsist without secret prayer. It is true – there is not always an equal freedom and delight, a like enlargement and comfort in those retirements, but yet he cannot be without them.
—John Flavel
We could no more earn a place in the heart of the Father than we could satisfy the claims of the righteous Judge. All is of free grace.
—D. L. Moody
I don’t think any man or woman knows what true liberty is until they have been set free by the Lord Jesus Christ.
—D. L. Moody
Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument.
Augustine
Train yourself to be indifferent to false claims about you. Without such indifference you can’t be free.
—Leo Tolstoy
Freedom is not to not restrain yourself, but to control yourself.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
—Thomas Aquinas
War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
—Heraclitus
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
—Voltaire
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
If our lot be so cast that we can exercise our ministry free from stripes, fines, imprisonment, and death, it is more than the Gospel has promised us.
—John Newton
The doctrines of our election, and free justification in CHRIST JESUS, are daily more and more pressed upon my heart. They fill my soul with a holy fire, and afford me great confidence in GOD my Saviour.
—George Whitefield
The doctrines of our election, and free justification in CHRIST JESUS, are daily more and more pressed upon my heart. They fill my soul with a holy fire, and afford me great confidence in GOD my Saviour.
—George Whitefield
When I consider it is for JESUS CHRIST, who has called me by his free grace into his marvellous light, and has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world, a divine fire kindles in my heart, and I long to call the lingering battle on.
—George Whitefield
When I consider it is for JESUS CHRIST, who has called me by his free grace into his marvellous light, and has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world, a divine fire kindles in my heart, and I long to call the lingering battle on.
—George Whitefield
Why hath GOD called us by his free grace, and made a difference between us and others, but that we should stand up in defence of his injured honour?
—George Whitefield
When the sinner comes to Christ, it is all at once taken away, and the soul is left free, it is lightened of its burden, it is delivered from its bondage, and is like a bird escaped from the snare of the fowler.
—Jonathan Edwards
A great work of GOD is doing here. The LORD JESUS gets himself the victory every day; free grace compels poor sinners to come in.
—George Whitefield
Self righteousness can feed upon doctrines, as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature, and the riches of free grace.
—John Newton
Self righteousness can feed upon doctrines, as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature, and the riches of free grace.
—John Newton
I live, I study. I don’t bow to anyone and I don’t fear anyone but God. It is a great happiness to be a free person.
—Taras Shevchenko