Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end.
Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.
Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.
As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.
Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.
When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60.
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.
To forgive another from the heart is an act of liberation. We set that person free from the negative bonds that exist between us. As long as we do not forgive we pull them with us, or worse, as a heavy load. The great temptation is to cling in anger to our enemies & then define ourselves as being offended & wounded by them. Forgiveness, therefore, liberates not only the other but also ourselves. It is the way to the freedom of the children of God.
When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. . . As we're liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our gratitude liberates an energy within us that immediately expands into the formless substance, where it is instantly returned to us in kind.
Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.