Quotes About Shackles

Why deny them the glory that was theirs, true inheritors of Eden? So I heard the others start to whisper. Adam and Eve lived in ignorance, oblivious to their nascent potential. Why would he create such beings only to shackle them? Their pain became our pain, for we loved them as much as we loved Him.

The profits made from the widespread dependence on illicit drugs are enriching murderers and terrorists. It seems possible that in the near future we shall be ruled by an oligarchy of former drug dealers, who are rapidly gaining wealth and power at the expense of law-abiding citizens. And in our sexual lives, by shedding the shackles of "hypocritical" morality, we have unleashed destructive viruses upon one another.

Though it is from the East that the Sun rises, Showing itself bold and bright without a veil, it burns and blazes with inward fire Only when it escapes from the shackles of East and West. Drunk with the splendor it springs up out of its East that it may subject all its horizons to its mastery. Its nature is innocent of both East and West, Though in origin, true, it is an Easterner.

Guilt shall be his shackles, remorse his cell.

Sure, society understands visible shackles-- they get the symbolism of the wheelchair, of prosthetics, of a bumper sticker reading disabled veteran, but they still struggle for comprehension of the profound, invisible shackles that an illness such as [Chronic Fatigue] puts on a person's body.

Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.

Then he put out Zedekiahís eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

Though he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him.