When Israel was from bondage led, Led by the Almighty's hand From out of foreign land, The great sea beheld and fled.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.

An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.

Th' adorning thee with so much art Is but a barb'rous skill; 'T is like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill.

Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and …

And faith for me begins with complete liberation. It liberates you, it drives away your fears - fear of dying, fear of losing your wealth, fear of humiliation …

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.