Louise Erdrich Quotes

I didn't need taming. I needed saving.

She has given me a way out.

Anything we love can be saved.

You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours. The me that's me right now is yours. Always.

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

I will lead my people out of bondage, Lord.

When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've had to jump. I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course. But after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways ...Every night I save you.

They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.