Insofar as human beings flower on the ground of freedom, justice guards that ground. Insofar as human beings flower in the soil of community, justice tends that soil. Justice makes possible a social order that people can truly be said to share freely.
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H. D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.
Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion. '
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use
Worship, the act of freely giving love to God, forms and informs every activity of the Christian's life.
The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take.
The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.
No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.
People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!
To move freely you must be deeply rooted.
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness
Love is. . . like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift. " All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.
The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come.
For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very preceisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.