Quotes About Bondage

Humankind, with its long history, is by now a corpse bound to a tree with the ropes of convention. If the ropes were cut, the corpse would simply fall to the ground. Prayer in one's mother tongue is a manifestation of that pathetic state. -from A Prayer in the Mother Tongue

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

submission. God doesn't want slaves.

Who can be 'agents unto themselves' if they are in bondage to others and have to accept their terms?

The freefall sex? Grossly oversold. Everything moves in all the wrong ways. Things get away from you. You have to strap everything down to get purchase. It's more like mutual bondage.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

It is better to live with one free man and to be without fear and free, than to be a slave with many.

Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:31-32). Satan attempts to keep us in bondage to his lies, but we can be set free through the truth that God has revealed to us.

Theo, do not become materialistic like Tersteeg. The problem is, Theo, my brother, not to let yourself be bound, no matter by what, especially not by a golden chain.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

A people afraid were a people trapped in bondage. Break that fear and people would spring forward into freedom and liberty.

Öyle insanlar vard?r ki koskoca dünyam?z bile onlar için bir hapishaneden ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir. Çünkü onlar, kainat?n sonsuz bo?lu?unu görmektedirler. Milyonlarca y?ld?z? ve evreni seyretmektedirler ama bunlar?n kendilerine ebediyen yasakland???n? bildikleri için, idrak ettikleri ?ey onlar? dü?ünebilecek en büyük köleler haline getirmektedir: Zaman?n ve mekan?n köleleri.

grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

In the name of rejecting ecclesiastical authority as "hierarchy" or "tradition" as theological manipulation and bondage, we have instead created a hermeneutic of suspicion and have invested every biblically informed conscience (instead of a pope) to speak ex cathedra. It is a Pyrrhic victory for Free church Protestantism when the net effect of its teaching results in the replacing of the tyranny of the magisterium with the tyranny of individualism.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality, when they raise issues of bondage and discrimination - African Americans are seen as not patriotic.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat--especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

Security was a mirage; being tied down hardly counted when the other end of the rope had unraveled.