Emmet Fox Quotes

If you really see through the eyes of how God sees people, He loves them, but what did He do? He spoke the truth. And the truth will set you free, and you shall be free indeed.

Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom

Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

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?

In my soul, I am free.

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.

Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all.

Hell is gone and heaven's here,there's nothing left for you to fear.

Freedom, my friend, can only be found in His grace.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.