The definition of freedom

Much of the time we think we are loving and free when in reality we do not even know what these words imply. for example, the whole world currently seems to believe that freedom grows with the number of options placed before us. But God's love teaches us something different. "Perfect freedom is the total inability to make any evil choice," says Thomas Merton. "Therefore, the simplest definition of freedom is this; it means the ability to do the will of God."

Stratford Caldecott, The Radiance of Being