#freedom

A match as a pen Blood on the floor as ink The forgotten gauze cover as paper But what should I write? I might just manage my address This ink is strange; it clots I write you from a prison in Greece ↗

— Alexanderos Panagoulis

#resistance #revolution #freedom

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#work-ethic #freedom

True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as freedom FROM, it isn't simply a matter of being forced now to be good, against our wills and without our cooperation, but a matter of being released from slavery precisely into responsibility, into being able at last to choose, to exercise moral muscle, knowing both that one is doing it oneself and that the Spirit is at work within, that God himself is doing that which I too am doing. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#god #jesus #justification #paul #freedom

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#liberty #faith

Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos. ↗

— R.J. Leahy

#noir #science-fiction #freedom

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#life #time #understanding #freedom

The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack of integrity--a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain." - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118) ↗

— Tara Leigh Cobble

#integrity #obedience #pain #truth #wisdom

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#happiness #freedom

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen ↗

— Samuel Adams

#inspirational #liberty #freedom

God never sends suffering. Never. It is never "God's will" that we should suffer. God would like us not to suffer. But since the world brings suffering, and since God refuses to use His almighty power and treat us as foolish children, He aligns Himself with us, goes into Auschwitz with us, is devastated by 9/11 with us, and draws us with Him through it all into fulfillment. This is a high price to pay for our human freedom, but it is worth it. To be mere automatons for whom God arranges the world to cause us no suffering would mean we never have a self. We could not make choices. ↗

— Wendy Beckett

#freedom