I have always felt that spiritual freedom comes from within. Freedom touches our hearts in special ways. When we feel free, our spirits soar and our souls find peace.
When we empower ourselves and let go of limiting beliefs, we open the door to living a deeply fulfilling life on our own terms. Here are 115 spiritual quotes about freedom to improve your day!
These beautiful quotes help us understand what it means to be truly free, not just in our bodies, but in our minds and souls. Spiritual freedom goes deeper than just doing what we want. It’s about finding peace inside ourselves.
Here we go!
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Powerful Spiritual Quotes about Freedom
1. “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” — John 8:32
2. “Not only are we in the Universe, the Universe is in us. I don’t know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
3. “They unwrap our rights to package profit and oppress, but freedom only answers prosperity’s call when paired equally with ethics.” — Unknown
4. “Before you step into the realm of the spirit through spiritual warfare, and against any demonic attack against you, there is something you must do: You must establish a foundation in Christ.” — John Ramirez
5. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” — Carrie Jones
6. “We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!” — Hafez
7. “Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent.” — Mike Tyson
8. “Change is not peaceful. Do not expect peace here, but faith, courage and determination. You must win your freedom.” — Marshall Vian Summers
9. “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” — Lao Tzu
10. “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” — Mary Oliver
11. “The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.” — Vladimir Nabokov
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12. “It is time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid, get off the cruise-ship church, jump into the battleship Church and start moving into the purpose and destiny that God has for you.” — John Ramirez
13. “Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.” — Eckhart Tolle
14. “Soul power ripples outward in all directions, affecting everything— physical health, emotional well-being, relationships, families, work, and destiny.” — Gregory Dickow
15. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus
16. “Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.” — Ajahn Brahm
17. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” — Sigmund Freud
18. “Freedom is the right to live as we wish.” — Epictetus
19. “Biblical Freedom doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want. It means you’re free to do what’s right according to God’s Word.” — Samuel Deuth
20. “Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.” — Vallabhbhai Patel
21. “We acquire the strength we have overcome.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. “True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.” — Osho
23. “To find yourself, think for yourself.” — Socrates
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24. “It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.” — Viktor E. Frankl
25. “True salvation is freedom from negativity.” — Eckhart Tolle
26. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
27. “The Universe is saying: ‘Allow me to flow through you unrestricted, and you will see the greatest magic you have ever seen.’” — Klaus Joehle
28. “Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.” — L. Ron Hubbard
29. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
30. “True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.” — Adyashanti
31. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “The universe took its time on you / crafted you precisely so you could offer the world / something distinct from everyone else / so when you doubt how you were created / you doubt an energy greater than us both.” — Rupi Kaur
33. “What is spiritual freedom? Spiritual freedom is growing into a state of more godliness. Becoming more aware of the presence of God. How do you do this? By becoming aware of the lessons behind your everyday experiences. This is how you grow into a loving awareness of the presence of God. Most people live under the hand of.” — Harold Klemp
34. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
35. “You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately, you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.” — Eckhart Tolle
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36. “Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.” — Lao Tzu
37. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain
38. “The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.” — Mary Baker Eddy
39. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
40. “The poet’s spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.” — Salvatore Quasimodo
41. “You always have a choice. It may not be an easy choice, but you always have a choice.” — Rosa Parks
42. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.” — Rumi
43. “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” — Herbert Hoover
44. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” — Albert Camus
45. “We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.” — Ernest Holmes
46. “The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man’s life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.” — Thomas Merton
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47. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
48. “When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.” — Zig Ziglar
49. “When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell
50. “I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
51. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” — Socrates
52. “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” — Buddha
53. “Today in the west the word ‘guru’ has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.” — Frederick Lenz
54. “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit.” — Unknown
55. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” — Denis Waitley
56. “Feeling free inside oneself is being free.” — Rei Kawakubo
57. “Freedom rings from the depth of the heart where chains cannot reach.” — Unknown
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58. “There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.” — Rumi
59. “Locked doors barred me from the outside, but my spirit had the key to inner freedom.” — Unknown
60. “Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.” — Elizabeth Lesser
61. “We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” — Max DePree
62. “Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.” — Arthur Helps
63. “If you don’t know you’re in prison, you’re unlikely to escape.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman
64. “In silence, you find the freedom to hear your own soul speak.” — Unknown
65. “But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.” — Ralph Adams Cram
66. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius
67. “Allow your mind to be quiet, for in this you are free… Without your domination, your mind will be free and will experience its own depth in Spirit.” — Steps to Knowledge
68. “Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.” — Swami Vivekananda
69. “Freedom comes when you learn to let go. Creation comes when you learn to say no.” — Unknown
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70. “Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.” — Eckhart Tolle
71. “The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.” — Nikolai Berdyaev
72. “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” — Marcus Aurelius
73. “You’re not stuck—you’re fluid, a traveler with a thousand paths underfoot.” — David Maze
74. “The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.” — Marianne Williamson
75. “If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigor of moral fiber, nor beauty of Spiritual growth.” — Henry Drummond
76. “The birds have no masters, the wind has no boundaries. Let your spirit be like these.” — Unknown
77. “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.” — Abraham Lincoln
78. “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln
79. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” — Rumi
80. “The moment you realize you are not your thoughts, you begin to taste freedom.” — Unknown
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81. “Freedom is rare in the universe, as it is in your own world. This is the great truth that you will have to face, in contrast perhaps to your expectations, hopes and wishes.” — Life in the Universe
82. “The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.” — John Milton
83. “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
84. “It’s time to pick a hill and take a stand for our God-given liberties before there are no more hills left!” — Samuel Deuth
85. “You don’t need to impress God, to please him by great achievements. Do you think anything you do will impress God? Do you think God ever says, “I’ve never seen anyone that smart?” Then be yourself. That’s how God made you.” — David A. Fiensy
86. “The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.” — St. John of the Cross
87. “Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.” — Sadhguru
88. “True freedom is not found in the external world but in liberating yourself from the prison of your own mind.” — Unknown
89. “To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh…that is the highest of all freedoms.” — Gene Luen Yang
90. “They tried to cage me with doubt and fear, but freedom taught me to sing.” — Unknown
91. “Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.” — Buddha
92. “Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.” — Maggie Kuhn
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93. “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” — Corinthians 3:17
94. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
95. “Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.” — Laozi
96. “That man is free who is not afraid to go to the end of his thought.” — Leon Blum
97. “Nonsense is an assertion of man’s spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.” — Aldous Huxley
98. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” — Leonardo da Vinci
99. “The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.” — John Jay
100. “Man is free at the instant he wants to be.” — Voltaire
101. “With freedom, we ascend. Without it, we descend. There is no middle ground.” — Unknown
102. “Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.” — Yisroel Salanter
103. “You may shackle my hands, but my mind is a bird that flies where it wishes.” — Unknown
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104. “The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.” — Osho
105. “My freedom is a seed that grows tall enough to peek over the prison wall.” — Unknown
106. “Spiritual freedom is the root of political liberty…As the union between spiritual freedom and political liberty seems nearly inseparable, it is our duty to defend both.” — Thomas Paine
107. “Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
108. “The strongest prison cannot stifle the voice of freedom that resonates from within.” — Unknown
109. “True freedom is where an individual’s thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor – no matter the personal price.” — Bryant H. McGill
110. “Shackled wrists cannot crush the keys to freedom that rattle boldly in my mind.” — Unknown
111. “Personal comfort is a poor exchange for nation freedom.” — Samuel Deuth
112. “I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.” — Elbert Hubbard
113. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin
114. “It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything.” — Chuck Palahniuk
115. “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” — Janis Joplin
I hope that the above spiritual quotes on freedom will take you forward on the path of a peaceful life.
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