Quotes About Release

It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go." -- Peter Gabriel about the meaning of the song "Solsbury Hill". From the book "Without Frontiers: The Life & Music of Peter Gabriel".

Magical. I mean to watch a person let go of something and flower.

The tears that weren't there yesterday flood. Break the dam and flood.

One adopted their language, that of the teachers and the schools, one had none of one's own. At first it was like a release, like a key, like a road. The only road in. Much later one discovers that what one was let into, at that time, was a tunnel. From which one can never again escape. Not entirely. Not in this life.

And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”

And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.í

May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

So I will stretch out My hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among them. And after that, he will release you.

Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people. Then I will let your people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”

But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,

But the LORD hardened Pharaohís heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the skin disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and release the live bird into the open field.

The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.

But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.

But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.

Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.

When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.

At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORDís time of release has been proclaimed.

Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.