Logo
Quote by Bede Griffiths
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical de

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men. – Bede Griffiths

Other quotes by Bede Griffiths

I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me. – Bede Griffiths

Category:
Age
Author
Bede Griffiths
Read Quote

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage. – Bede Griffiths

Category:
alone
Author
Bede Griffiths
Read Quote

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding. – Bede Griffiths

Category:
Faith
Author
Bede Griffiths
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Freedom
category

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom. – Corazon Aquino

Category:
Freedom

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment. – Anna Deavere Smith

Category:
Freedom

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that whats on the line is American liberty itself. – Thomas Frank

Category:
Freedom

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of ones house. – James Otis

Category:
Freedom

Random Quotes

I dont want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts. – Elizabeth Hurley

Category:
Sports

I dont know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. – Nicholas Sparks

Category:
Change

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. – Elvis Presley

Category:
movies

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. – Bobby Jindal

Category:
communication