Quotes About Captivity

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to protect myself and remained a prisoner.

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

Those poor things. They sounded so scared and angry. And why wouldn't they? What else should they feel when some horrible person released them into an environment they weren't born for?

The caged bird sings with A fearful trill of things unknown But longed for still and his Tune is heard on the distant hill For the caged bird sings of freedom.

The one thing she'd learned in life was that family was a fickle concept. There was no loyalty. If she couldn't expect such a thing from her own clan, how could she expect it from complete strangers? She nodded grimly to herself. Aye, she needed to pull her head from the clouds and view her mission with more objectivity. She was a captive. Nothing more. To forget such was to open herself up for more disappointment.

Prisoners! Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.

Perhaps you think it's quiet in the prison, but it's noisy. For every activity iron doors have to be opened and closed and iron passageways and iron steps have to be walked down. By day people shout at one another and at night they shout in their sleep....You want to know what the worst thing is? That life is elsewhere. That you're cut off from kt and rotting, and the longer you wait for afterward, the less afterward is worth.

A domesticated lion is only an unnatural lion — and whatever is unnatural is untrustworthy.

two brown eyes that seemed trapped in a spider web of weary lines.

We have a crippling tendency to forget what God has done for us. For a while, we're humbled. Then, if we do not guard our hearts and minds, we begin to think we must have done something right for God to have been so good to us. Therein lies another road to captivity. It is the road of legalism.

A Christian is held captive by anything that hinders the abundant and effective Spirit-filled life God planned for him or her.

We have a crippling tendency to forget what God has done for us. For a while, we're humbled. Then, if we do not guard our hearts and minds, we begin to think we must have done something right for God to have been so good to us. Therein lies another road to captivity. It is the road of legalism. Hezekiah believed he was right with God because of what he had done.

Let's consider a series of lessons that lay the groundwork for our discussion of breaking free. I will list them as nine lessons about captivity and freedom. LESSON 1 The people of God can be oppressed by the enemy.

Then take me prisoner to Your will Enslaved in Your safekeeping.

I have given Him permission to take every one of my memories captive to Christ, and now I can no longer see my abuses and sins in their own accord or in the hands of Satan. Now I see them in the healing, forgiving, nail-scarred hands of Jesus where He is cleansing them and transforming them into the stuff of mercy.

We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet.

He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives. Isaiah 61:1

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

Once again we were in captivity.