Freedom Quote by D. A. Carson

“True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us” quote by D. A. Carson — Download Open image

“True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us”

D. A. Carson

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Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

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Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

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Love the church because Jesus loves it.

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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