 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
- Patrick Henry Author: Assorted Authors |
| But the soul renounced shall abide in the boundlessness of God's life. This is liberty, this is prosperity. The more we lose, the more we gain. Author: Watchman Nee |
| By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. Author: Thomas Aquinas |
| Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us. Author: William Law |
| We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline practically has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not "disciplined"? Author: A.W. Tozer
Source: Christianity Today, November 20, 1987. |
| Wherever God pardons sin, he subdues it... If the fetters of sin be broken off, and we walk at liberty in the ways of God, this is a blessed sign we are pardoned. Author: Thomas Watson |
|
|
| The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh. Author: John Bunyan
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb? Author: Alan Keyes |
| Christian liberty then does not teach that there are things in the world in which you are free to indulge yourself. It does not suggest that you may do anything you wish with God's creation. But it teaches that there are things which you are free to enjoy and use as you serve the Lord. Author: Walter J. Chantry
Source: The Shadow of the Cross - Studies in Self-Denial |
| Liberty may be an instrument for giving glory to the Most High, or it may be a curtain used to shield base indulgence of the flesh (I Peter 2:16). You may discover by self-examination of your heart which function liberty serves in your life. Author: Walter J. Chantry
Source: The Shadow of the Cross - Studies in Self-Denial |
| There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss. Author: Walter J. Chantry
Source: The Shadow of the Cross - Studies in Self-Denial |
