Erwin McManus Quotes

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

Erwin McManus

• Freedom
• Sin
• Illusion
• Fools
• Creates

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• I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Black
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opinion

• The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Freedom
  • Lost
  • Day

• Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Freedom
  • Best
  • Criticism

• War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Society
  • Freedom

• When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • New

• Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Freedom

• While, legally and constitutionally, speech may be free, the space in which that freedom can be exercised has been snatched from us and auctioned to the highest bidders.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • May
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Up
  • World
  • Freedom

• With this crazy lifestyle, you have to think of places where you can still have your freedom.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Freedom
  • Crazy

• Customer freedom! Don't dictate how I want to watch my TV!

  

  Benedict Wong
  • Freedom

• In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

  

  Frederic Bastiat
  • Long
  • Freedom

• For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

  

  Luke Evans
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

  

  James Frey
  • Work
  • Freedom

• Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Age
  • Freedom

• Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Up
  • Freedom

• I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Country
  • Now

• It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

  

  Christine Gregoire
  • Business
  • True
  • Environment

• During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Freedom
  • Sin
  • Illusion