"We have to teach people about the crucial things of life: life, death, freedom and so on. Now we have freedom to worship in Albania and people are free, at least outwardly, but freedom, like anything else, can be abused. People were not used to freedom and we had to teach them that the freedom should have some boundaries—not to limit their freedom, but to help them to be free.
I tried to give to them some examples. In Albania, the roads are mostly in the mountains and some of those that run alongside precipices have railings or walls for protection. These are not to limit the freedom of the drivers, but to protect them. So too, the boundaries set by God’s commandments are not to limit our freedom, but to help us, to save us and to make us free. All the commandments—‘don’t do that, don’t do this’—are to help us. "
Metropolitan John of Korc
