Quotes About Captivity

Jesus said, "It is impossible that no offenses should come" (Luke 17:1). It is not a question of opportunity to be offended, but what your response will be. It is an unfortunate fact that, not some, but many are offended and held captive.

I never saw those heights and depths in grace, and love, and mercy, as I saw after this temptation; great sins to draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.  When Job had passed through his captivity, he had twice as much as he had before.  Job xlii. 10. 

Prud. What is Man? Joseph. A Reasonable Creature, so made by God, as my Brother said. Prud. What is supposed by this word saved? Joseph. That Man by Sin has brought himself into a state of Captivity and Misery. Prud. What is supposed by his being saved by the Trinity? Joseph. That Sin is so great and mighty a Tyrant, that none can pull us out of its clutches but God; and that God is so good and loving to man, as to pull him indeed out of this miserable state.

Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

Evil takes only prisoners….Time takes none."From The Tenth, chapter 28.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

I don't guess anybody likes the idea of being locked up.

I wasn't merely remembering, it seemed to be trapped inside my eyelids.

When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature--fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature—fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

That little guy, said Boris in the car on the way to Antwerp. You know the painter saw him-he wasn't painting that bird from his mind, you know? That's a real little guy, chained up on the wall, there. If I saw him mixed up with dozen other birds all the same kind, I could pick him out, no problem. And he's right. So could I. And if I could go back in time I'd clip the chain in a heartbeat and never care a minute that the picture was never painted.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Je treba poveda?, že umelec slúži kráse a poézii, slúži teda absolútnu, miluje absolútno, je v zajatí absolútna lásou, ktorá si vyžaduje celú jeho bytos?, telo aj dušu. nemôže súhlasi? so žiadnym rozdelením. kúsok neba skrytý v temnom príbytku jeho ducha...

Her heart lurched and tears burned her eyes. "Surely you can escape." "Not this time." He captured a tear that rolled down her cheek. "Don't cry. You've given me more joy than I've ever known." "It's not enough." He gave her a sad grin. "That's how pirates are made. The plunder we take is never enough. We're never content with what we have. We always want more.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside.

What numbers us imprisons us.

They bound me hand and foot; they placed me in a solitary darkness. They put a mask upon my face, with a metal bit between my lips to silence me. They gave me a tongue; and then stopped it up, so they would not have to hear it crying.

A golden cage is still a cage.

I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.