Quotes About Bondage

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty;

Having escaped restraint, they were, like some people we know of, afraid of their freedom, did not know what to do with it, and seemed glad to get back into the old familiar bondage.

Century after century, we have prosecuted our insane conflicts from atop their backs, resting on their sturdy necks when we grew weary, eating their flesh when we were starving, disemboweling them and crawling inside their bodies when we were freezing. --Blood Horses

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

All fear is bondage.

Satan seeks to blind us with his lies about God. Instead of the freedom and victory that can be ours, he wants us to be defeated and in bondage. He delights in deceiving us about the character of our God and wants us to believe that God doesn't love us, that He is not good, not in control, not fair, not caring, and any other lie that he can convince us to believe.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel.

The human species is its own enemy. We're our own demise. Greed and self interest is our bondage.