Quotes About Binding

No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death.

Books represented home to him, and around every wall, the doctor's shelves were full to bulging, a haphazard organization of varied colors of binding, sizes, shapes. There was a happy disorder about it that made Jess feel something settle inside he hadn't even known was restless.

A blank isn't the same. He remembered holding the book, feeling the history of the leather cover someone had tanned and stretched and cut to fit. The paper that someone had laboriously filled by hand and sewn into the binding. Years, heavy on the pages. Morgan had been reading a copy of it. An original. It felt like the old monk's story was part of his own. But when he read it in the blank, it was just words, and it had no power to carry him away.

Alchemy is a science, but a science that acknowledges certain principles of magic. This. . . this is a mathematical expression of quintessence, Archimedes' fifth element, which binds all things together.

It was Jamie's fear that he would lose her—that she would go, swing out into a dark and solitary space without him, unless he could somehow bind her to him, keep her with him. But, Christ, what a risk to take—with a woman so shocked and brutalized, how could he risk it?

A forced oath canna bind a man, though, or keep him from his knowledge of right.

It is in the nature of love to bind itself";2 vows are love's native language. Love that is mute in the language of promises, though it may be called love, is not love but something else.

When a thought is obedient to Christ, it either aligns with Christ or is rejected by Christ and by God's teaching found in Scripture. See, if a thought is not taken captive by you in Jesus' name, that thought will take you captive. You will bind the thought, or the thought will, in time, bind you.

Love is the binding agent that holds the whole Universe together.

He presses himself so close to me that any hurt left on the surface between us spreads thin, becomes a binding instead of a boundary

Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.

a love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.

ominously—a love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.

I was so haunted and stirred even by her plainness suggested – ominously – a love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.

love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

Before allowing them to leave, Henry bound them to support his dynastic plan.

An oath by the River Styx would hold even Zeus himself.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

Love is the most powerful force in our world, it is what binds us together and motivates us to achieve truly great things. Forgiveness is second to Love. When we combine the two, we free our minds and spirits Then, we can truly know Freedom.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

The fine structure constant] ... defines how firmly atomic nuclei bind together and how all the atoms on Earth were made. Its value controls the power from the Sun and, more sensitively, how stars transmute hydrogen into all the atoms of the periodic table.

The chains of love are never binding as when the links are made of gold.

That even under the gospel of peace and reconciliation by Christ (of which the intercession of Moses was typical) the moral law should continue to bind believers.