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Quotes About Bondage

WORSHIP ME ONLY. Whatever occupies your mind the most becomes your god. Worries, if indulged, develop into idols. Anxiety gains a life of its own, parasitically infesting your mind. Break free from this bondage by affirming your trust in Me and refreshing yourself in My Presence.
~ Sarah Young
WORSHIP ME ONLY. Whatever occupies your mind the most becomes your god. Worries, if indulged, develop into idols. Anxiety gains a life of its own, parasitically infesting your mind. Break free from this bondage by affirming your trust in Me and refreshing yourself in My Presence. What goes on in your mind is invisible, undetectable to other people. But I read your thoughts continually, searching for evidence of trust in
~ Sarah Young
Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.
~ Scott Lynch
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for children of God to be revealed. 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 freedom and glory of the children of God. (Rom. 8:18–21 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
To be worthy of its New Testament origin, the church must seek to transform both individual lives and the social situation that brings to many people anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.
~ Ayn Rand
We can be so free. It all begins here—with an internal choice to let Christ so invade our hearts that we cannot be held to any sort of bondage internally. We choose to love, to forgive; we choose not to fear; we choose life.
~ Stasi Eldredge
The purposes of Jesus Christ are not finished when one of this precious ones is forgiven. Not at all. Would a good father feel satisfied when his daughter is rescued from a car accident, but left in the ICU? Doesn't he want her to be healed as well?... Now the Son of God has come to ransom you, and to heal your broken, wounded heart, and to set you free from bondage.
~ Stasi Eldredge
Love is a gift; love is also a chain with a manacle at each end.
~ Stephen King
The darkness of sin is a cords of deceit.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.
~ Ghada al-Samman
It's been so long since I made love, I can't even remember who gets tied up.
~ Joan Rivers
No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you tightest.
~ Jon Courtenay Grimwood
She raised her hands to wipe her face - and discovered she could not do so. Bonds bit her wrists. Chains jangled. Her arms were painfully constrained. Clearly another great day was about to begin.
~ Jonathan Stroud
At our core, without being conscious in Christ, our souls are still in bondage and can only see things from the natural, fleshly appearance. Our Christ Consciousness gives the double consciousness depth and character. Our Christ Consciousness elevates our awareness to our responsibility to care for and love our brothers—even those who don't look like us.
~ Eric Mason
May he at the last bind us to his triumphal carriage so that, although in bonds oppressed, we may participate in his victory!
~ Eric Metaxas
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
~ Benjamin Franklin
marrying a free man did not mean Harriet became free, too.
~ Grace Norwich
The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.
~ Florence L. Barclay
The mind's nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say 'Why did you come at this wrong time?' And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.
~ Dada Bhagwan
If you seek immortality, then give. For giving frees humanity from the bondage of time. When all is gone, what's left is what you gave.
~ Val Uchendu
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.
~ Rumi
They say dogs are man's best friend," he said. "But horses are man's best slave.
~ Mary Gaitskill