Quotes About Bondage

Living in bondage, I have set myself free: I have broken away from the clutch of all narrowness.

To depend on the protection of another man is to be his slave, to protect other folk is to be the slave of your own emotions.

Las cadenas de la esclavitud sólo atan las manos: es la mente la que hace al hombre libre o esclavo

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper. The Christian community resembles a Wall Street exchange of works wherein the elite are honored and the ordinary ignored.

Freedom in Christ produces a healthy independence from peer pressure, people-pleasing, and the bondage of human respect.

Christianity is not simply a message but an experience of faith that becomes a message, explicitly offering hope, freedom from bondage, and a new realm of possibility.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men, the former are so much the freer.

However, if we don't confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we become bound to the "prison cell" that those lies create.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be.­

All night long like a moving stain, (The trees are breaking, my son,) The black ghost wanders his house of pain. There is blood where his hand has lain. It is wrong he should wear a chain. (The sky is falling, my son.)

Of two friends one is always the slave of the other, though often neither will admit it.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

The phrase It's absolutely the same with me, I... seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.

Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

…She kissed me on my thin lips and all my words were pushed back into my mouth. "I don't want to die, " she whispered, "but I need to lose the shackles of this multitude of hearts.

The wise do not consider the chains and shackles of jail to be the toughest restraints. The chains of attachment are the strongest of the ties that bind.

With great understanding, we see the way out of our bondage. We discover the lightness and compassion necessary to love someone else

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Secular entertaining is a terrible bondage. Its source is human pride. Demanding perfection, fostering the urge to impress, it is a rigorous taskmaster which enslaves. In contrast, Scriptural hospitality is a freedom which liberates.

Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.

As if all of us existed only in the bondage of the will From inside each autonomy grows the light of grace; when it is not murderous; as if the Graces existed, were alive, in their ambiguity, their infinite delicacy . . .