We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

Empire and liberty.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

I am the freest author in the world.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I’m glad I can’t vote.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‚Citizens United.‘ I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.