True Freedom Quotes - Page 3

• I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Freedom, America

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• That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Compassionate Love, True Happiness

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• True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  States, Liberating

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• True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

  David J. Lieberman

  Want, Able, Moments

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.55, David Lieberman

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• True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.

  David Wilkerson

  Hands, Lord, Resigning

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• There is true freedom in letting go.

  Amy Dickinson

  Letting Go, Women

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• Most Christians are more than content to live out their lives surrounded by the trappings of our world, rather than to risk losing them in becoming a radical Christian. A radical Christian (by my definition) is one who will put God first in all decisions, even when putting God first is costly. In the business world, this means putting God first even when doing so costs money. That is true freedom - spiritual freedom - as opposed to business bondage.

  Larry Burkett

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

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• Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.747, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Poverty, Persist

  Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

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• When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.

  Criss Jami

  Creativity, Responsibility, Complaining

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.32, Criss Jami

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• It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Justice, Balance, Levels

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• Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Judgement, Enlightenment, Three

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.140, Penguin

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• I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

  Josephine Baker

  Land, Democracy, France

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• True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Honor, Matter, Action

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• In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, and repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

  Jack Kornfield

  Mean, Expression, Mind

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• Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.

  James E. Faust

  Obedience, Liberated

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• A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to fly in the air like a bird, disaster occurs. A train is free as long as it stays on the track. However, if it demands freedom to take off down a major highway, the result is destruction and devastation. We too can only experience true freedom in its fullest if we remain within the framework of freedom. Often this requires accepting responsibility and practicing discipline.

  Gigi Graham

  Responsibility, Air, Discipline

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• There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Law, May

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?

  Marion D. Hanks

  Giving, Bully, Joy

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• I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Memories, Reflection, Government

  Statement, November 08, 1998.

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• It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Fall, Mean

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• True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Freedom, Power, Self

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• True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Moments, Ends

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• There is a certain amount of righteous indignation I hold for the American culture, because to get back to the real root of it, to get broader about it, my opinion that is my species - and my culture in America specifically - have let me down and betrayed me. I think this species had great, great promise, with this great upper brain that we have, and I think we squandered it on God and Mammon. And I think this culture of ours has such promise, with the promise of real, true freedom, and then everyone has been shackled by ownership and possessions and acquisition and status and power.

  George Carlin

  Real, Thinking, Brain

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• The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.

  Wendy Beckett

  Dream, Self, Imagination

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