Quotes About Bondage

I hate irony. It is a manacle that ties our dreams to our fears.

Faith as assensus is "relatively impotent, relatively powerless. You can believe all the right things and still be in bondage.

We need an untamed Savior because… only a wildly redemptive Jesus can free us from the pain and bondage of past mistakes!

January 25, 1785, nineteen people gathered at the home of innkeeper John Simmons to form a society that would safeguard blacks who had already secured their freedom and try to win freedom for those still held in bondage. The group was called the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves.

El hombre ha nacido libre y por doquiera se encuentra sujeto con cadenas.

the deepest goal of spirituality is freedom from the illusion of the self—and to seek such freedom, as though it were a future state to be attained through effort, is to reinforce the chains of one's apparent bondage in each moment.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

Haydée addressed her with a heartrending expression on her face: 'How do you expect him to understand me, my sister? He is my master, and I his slave. He has the right to see nothing.' The count shuddered at the tone of this voice, which awoke the deepest fibres of his being.

or la captivité partagée n'est plus qu'une demi-captivité

Health is our culture; anything that interferes with it is our bondage.

maybe it isn't love, maybe it's a chain.

AFFIANCED, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain.

So I do know this: Whatever you release, you are released from. What you cling to is that which binds you. You are your own liberator.

She was a Mistress who needed a Master. Who needed him.

No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

Global evangelism does not take place in a demilitarized zone but on the battleground of spiritual warfare. Satan, in vengeance and jealousy for that which belongs to God, is deceiving the nations and holding them in bondage to a lie.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

We know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers - One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. Two: When the populace recognises its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!

Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth.

One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. "Two: When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. "Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!

It's often better to be in chains than to be free.

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

it's often better to be in chains than to be free.