A Better Freedom

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“A Better Freedom” Galatians 5:7-12, Bible p. 975 Josh Crum, Pastor to Students January 31 & February 1, 2015

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Quotes from the Cutting Room Floor "There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought." - Charles Kingsley "Thou wouldst have satisfied the universal and everlasting craving of humanity - to find someone to worship. So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship…I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born."- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov “Whatever controls us really is our God... The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives." - Rebecca Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World “You have given your heart to something. You’ve given it to your own independence. You’ve given it to your own egocentricity...something you love. Something you say, ‘If I have that, then I’ll be happy.’ You can’t avoid it. Therefore, nobody is really free.” - Tim Keller “The new rebel in our time is a skeptic and will not entirely trust anything; therefore, he can’t be a rebel. Every denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind and the modern revolutionary doubts, not only the institutions he denounces, but the doctrine of any moral truth by which he would be able to denounce it. As a politician, he cries out that war is a waste of time, but as a philosopher, that life is a waste of time. In his books on politics he attacks persons for trampling on morality, but in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on persons.” - GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest “You wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down." Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon “The truth will set you free, but first it will [tick] you off." - Gloria Steinem "It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants." Blaise Pascal