“The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.” WorldWayDifferentBeautifulGrowsPowerfulLibertySecurityThousandOppositesBiggerDifferent Ways Book:It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News Source: It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News
“We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.” WorldLibertyFashionThis WorldChangedThousand Book:The divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow Source: The divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow
“No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!” MenWantLightRunningJoyLibertyLoversThousandProveClaimsDrivenDebateSheepPopeWant UPeasantsShoutingProve It Author:Morris West
“Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.” MenAmericaDiesLibertyEnemyMillionsLandSonPromiseThousandTenFellowsSlaveryOppressionWitnessResolutionHostOfferingWretchedFellow ManHostilityVowImposingDescendantsGrievanceShrinesComplexionExtremityLive Free Author:St. George Tucker