*FREE/*FREED/*FREEDOM - Also see SURRENDER, REDEMPTION, SALVATION, LIBERATION
God's power is limited because we have been granted the freedom to choose. (Prayer, p116)
A sacred Law of the Universe: Allow each soul to walk its path. (Conversations, p47)
The purpose of life is to free all sentient beings from ignorance which causes suffering. We suffer due to our ignorance. Buddhism teaches people to develop in themselves the wisdom to free oneself of all the negative attitudes and views that can create suffering. Buddhism addresses facing the demons in our very own mind. (Buddna, AOL)
If you truly love something, set it free. (PS, Time Mgt Planning, 1/1/96)
St. Teresa speaks of interior freedom verified in the fact that the soul is not tied down as it was before in things pertaining to the service of God, but has much more freedom. THUS, IN NOT BEING CONSTRAINED BY THE FEAR OF HELL. (Contemplation, 21)
The truth shall make you free (John 8:32)
break us free from the tomb of self-concern,
(page 129 of "Praying the Way" by Gloria Hutchinson)
For freedom Christ has set us free. (Gal 5:1)
So, if you wish to achieve a free spirit and gain my grace, everything you do must be preceded by a spontaneous offering of yourself into the hands of God. This is why so few people become enlightened and inwardly free: most do not know how to give themselves to me completely. "Unless a person renounces all that he has, he cannot be my follower." (Imitation, Book4, Ch8)
Simplicity of life is not frugality: it is life unencumbered, life free of things we own so that they do not own us. When we cultivate a sense of "enoughness," when we learn to enjoy things for their own sake, when we learn to be gentle even with what is lacking in ourselves, we find ourselves free to be where we are and to stop mourning where we are not. (Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB)
God is the same as a good therapist that will not bring up painful insights until they see that the patient is ready to face them. As humility and trust deepen, you can acknowledge the dark side of your personality more easily. Eventually you will reach the center of your human poverty and powerlessness and feel happy to be there. Then you enter into the FREEDOM of God's creative action becuase there is no longer any selfish or possessive attitude toward your personality or talents. You are completely at God's disposal. Interior FREEDOM is the goal of this prayer. Not FREEDOM to do what you like, but FREEDOM to do what God likes - FREEDOM to be your true Self and to be transformed in Christ. (Open Mind, p100)
God loved us so much that he gave us free will. (Awakening, p122)
By following Christ's way/example, God will also raise (and therefore, free) us above our evils of addictions and selfishness. (Fr. Furfarlo)