Quotes about Freedom

 "The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom." 

- Pope John Paul II

"Just as religion has need of freedom, so also freedom has need of religion."

--Bishop Wilhelm von Ketteler

"Finally, true freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom 

with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality.

 It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values,

 and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. 

Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace." 

- Pope John Paul II

"Freedom requires a primordial link to a higher instance. The fact that there are values which are not

 absolutely open to manipulation is the true guarantee of our freedom", which "develops only in 

responsibility to a greater good. Such a good exists only for all of us together. ... 

In human coexistence, freedom is impossible without solidarity. ... 

This holds true not only in private matters but also for society as a whole. 

In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, society must give sufficient space 

for smaller structures to develop and, at the same time, must support them so that one day 

they will stand on their own."

--Pope Benedict XVI, Sept 22, 2011

"Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. 

Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways." 

- Pope John Paul II

"Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment,

 or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. 

There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta." 

- Tarek Saab, Gut Check

'We have learned to recognize as freedom that which the Lord alone confers on us when he liberates

 us from lusts and desires and the other passions. "He who says, I know the Lord, and does not keep

 his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him," says John.'

--St. Clement of Alexandria