Freedom always frightens people who are hiding from themselves inside a rigid religious practice.
01902 – Hiding from Ourselves?
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01815 – Denying Freedom to Others
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, can not long retain it.
01764 – Humanity Has a Choice of Action
[from his time as an inmate at Auschwitz:] The experiences of camp life show that humanity does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Humanity can preserve a...
01754 – Space Between Stimulus & Response
Between stimulus and response there is a space... In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
01689 – Freedom is Opportunity
May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to do what is right.
01651 – Protest Consistently
Christians cannot protest for their religious freedom one day and protest against a mosque opening up down the street the next. Not only does that undermine Christian witness in politics, it undermines religious freedom. from Reclaiming Hope
01644 – Freedom and Responsibility
Freedom has a partner, and its name is responsibility. And together these give us the freedom to make a difference!
01611 – Nonviolent Resistance: Potent Weapon
I think that nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and human dignity. It has a way of disarming the opponent. It exposes his moral defenses. It weakens his morale and at the same time it works on...
01591 – Scapegoating is Human Nature
Human nature, when it is seeking power, wants either to play the victim or to create victims of others. In fact, the second follows from the first. Once we start feeling sorry for ourselves, we will soon find someone else to blame, accuse or attack—and with impunity!...
01489 – The Purpose of Our Deliverance
Christians, we have maintained, are those who through confrontation with death are given new freedom from the sting of death and so a new freedom for voluntary service to others. Surely if this claim has any truth in it, then it is not our own suffering but the...