Quotes on Freedom & Truth
Christian quotes on Freedom & Truth — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
The Father’s love does not force itself on the beloved.
Henri Nouwen
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
In essential unity; in nonessentials liberty; in all this charity.
Rupertus Meldenius
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
Tim Keller
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself one way or the other at all.
William Temple
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was yourself.
Diane H. Moody
Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Søren Kierkegaard
He who dares loses his footing for a moment; he who does not dare loses himself.
Søren Kierkegaard
It's a day when I don't accomplish anything, and I don't feel guilty.
John Mark Comer
Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me! Amen.
Martin Luther
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
Desmond Tutu
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu
Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God.
Henri Nouwen
We are not what we do, we are not what we have, we are not what others think of us. Coming home is claiming the truth. I am the beloved child of a loving creator.
Henri Nouwen
I don't have to put on spiritual makeup to make myself presentable to God.
Brennan Manning
Gossip is saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face; flattery is saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.
Kent Hughes
What is the curse of the law? It is the or-else-ness of the law: “Do this, or else.” Christ took the or-else-ness of the law onto Himself at the cross, so that there is no more or-else for anyone in Christ, as God looks upon us now. Or-else is gone forever from your relationship with God.
Ray Ortlund
Whoever forgives another sets a prisoner free. The prisoner is himself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We must bring to God what is in us, not what ought to be in us. This 'ought' will keep us from speaking the truth. It will also keep us from feeling the truth, especially the truth about our pain.
C.S. Lewis
Jesus disrupted the false peace all around him. He refused to spiritualize conflict avoidance.
Peter Scazzero
True freedom in Christ comes when you realize you have nothing to prove to anyone, because in Christ, God fully approves of you.
Steven Furtick
Maybe the reason it seems hard for me to forgive others is that I do not fully believe that I am a forgiven person. If I could fully accept the truth that I am forgiven and do not have to live in guilt or shame, I would really be free.
Henri Nouwen
The gospel of grace begins and ends with forgiveness. And people write songs with titles like “Amazing Grace” for one reason: grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations. Grace alone melts ungrace.
Philip Yancey
True gospel-humility means I stop connecting every experience, every conversation, with myself. In fact, I stop thinking about myself. The freedom of self-forgetfulness. The blessed rest that only self-forgetfulness brings.
Tim Keller
True modesty is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.
Tim Keller
I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less. I don’t need to notice myself—how I’m doing, how I’m being regarded—so often.
Tim Keller
I wish you the spirit of freedom, which does everything out of love and nothing out of compulsion.
Francis de Sales
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love - and do what you will.
Augustine of Hippo
A Christian is a free lord over all things and subject to no one. A Christian is a dutiful servant of all things and subject to everyone.
Martin Luther
Love God, your Lord, with all your heart, and then do as you please!
Arno Backhaus
Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that every major display of power, whether political or religious, strikes a large part of humanity with stupidity.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.
Richard Rohr
Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
Stanley Hauerwas
The spiritual freedom of man, which cannot be taken from him until his last breath, allows him, even until his last breath, to find the opportunity to shape his life meaningfully.
Viktor Frankl
I remain of the opinion that I have done the best that I could do for my people right now. I therefore do not regret my actions and will take upon myself the consequences that arise from them.
Sophie Scholl
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.
Sophie Scholl
People quoted here
Henri Nouwen, Martin Luther King Jr., Rupertus Meldenius, Tim Keller, William Temple, Diane H. Moody, Søren Kierkegaard, John Mark Comer, Martin Luther, Desmond Tutu, Brennan Manning, Kent Hughes
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