As sweet as liberty is, there might be more comfort and sweetness in losing it than keeping it. The prison doors might lock you in, but they cannot lock the Comforter out. Paul and Silas lost their liberty, but not their comfort.Triumphing Over Sinful Fear, 87
There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If, therefore, we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage.
It is simply not possible to account for the liberty created by Western civilization without recognizing the specifically Christian and biblical faith that formed its actuating principle.The Mission of God, 121