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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

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

Khi bạn không làm được điều bạn muốn làm, có lẽ bạn cũng cảm thấy tự do bị tước đoạt. ↗

— Nguyễn Nhật Ánh

#freedom

Her remarks caught his consideration and his violet eyes tapered with growing dislike. He was at least dejected in his solitude, and now she had come to ruin his isolation and compel him to speak when he would otherwise be enjoying silence. He pressed his immense body against the bars of the cell in hopes of intimidating her, but the captain remained complacent and unaffected by his display. “Leave me, woman,” he bellowed at her. “I fear a cannot do that just now. I might need your help, should you wish to give it.” He groaned and turned aside. “I will not assist you.” “It is rather a shame you won’t. I was going to offer you your freedom.” The giant turned back and looked at her with hesitation. ↗

— Michelle Franklin

#the-haanta-series #freedom

The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #freedom #freedom

What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk. ↗

— Larry Geller

#elvis-presley #freedom #if-i-can-dream #dreams

The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow. ↗

— Victor Manuel Rivera

#freedom #leadership #faith