Bondage Quotes

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.

You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.

There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

When the mind no longer sees itself as a body, forever in bondage to the body, the mind can be free and at peace even when we are physically sick.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

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

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.

Whatever our destiny is, whatever our Karma is, if we simply accept the mercy of Guru, "Guru Kripa", it can completely liberate us from all of our previous Karmic bondage.

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.

We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.

The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.

To be under a physical bondage or a mental bondage is one of the worst situations someone could ever be in life.

When someone finds his or her mind is not free or in mental bondage, such a person might as well not be free physically.

If you find God, you shall be free forever.

There is no one or group of people that would ever be free from bondage without making room for a change.

While in bondage, the strength of the mind is not put into full action in order to maximize its full potential.

Without a measure of anger against injustice, a person, a society or a whole nation would have to live perpetually under the bondage of injustice.

Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage.

How can you be free, If you don't even know you're trap or lock inside?

Freedom...is the act of releasing ourselves from the bondage of that which keeps us from living the life we were meant to live.

... He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

Accept only as much ‘cleanliness’ that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain ‘cleanliness’ such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage.

Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation].

That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.

The bond (of marriage) became the bondage itself

Lord save mankind from every darkness and bondage.

I was once in captivity but now I am saved by grace.

Jesus Christ has set me free from the chains of sin.

Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages in Jesus Name.

Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt.