Bondage Quotes - Page 11

• Two weeks after the arrested I was on the phone with my wife and we said a prayer and I was crying and just so happy, I can't even explain it. It was euphoric. People said I went from freedom my whole life to prison, but in reality, I went from imprisonment and bondage of sin and death my whole life, to finding freedom in a prison cell.

  Christian Hosoi

  Prayer, Reality, Cells

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she will follow us. We only deserve things when they cease to bind us. When the bondage ceases, really and truly, all things come to us. Only those who want nothing are masters of nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Negative, Want, Conquer

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3176, Manonmani Publishers

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• We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Justice, Humanity, Honor

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.55, University of Virginia Press

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• The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Jail, Too Late

  Barry Goldwater (1960). “The Conscience of a Conservative”

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• Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Dignity, Human Bondage, Policemen

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.356, Diversion Books

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• 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.

  Radhanath Swami

  Thinking, Frustration, Suffering

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• Most Christians are more than content to live out their lives surrounded by the trappings of our world, rather than to risk losing them in becoming a radical Christian. A radical Christian (by my definition) is one who will put God first in all decisions, even when putting God first is costly. In the business world, this means putting God first even when doing so costs money. That is true freedom - spiritual freedom - as opposed to business bondage.

  Larry Burkett

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

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• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hands, Order, Law

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• Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

  Jay Sekulow

  Men, Evil, Might

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• 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.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Sick, Forever, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Do your actions in the world, without forgetting that your find goal in life is to break free from all bondage and limitations. Always 'remember that you have a higher goal to attain.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Goal, World, Action

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam.

  Kola Boof

  Mother, Children, Men

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

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, Moles, Beloved

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• We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free

  Desmond Tutu

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• 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.

  Tracie Peterson

  Liberty, Way, Remember

  Tracie Peterson (2009). “Dawn's Prelude (Song of Alaska Book #1)”, p.183, Bethany House

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• Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dark, Men, Racism

  "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". www.africa.upenn.edu. April 16, 1963.

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• The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Discovery, Mind, Desire

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.181, M-y books ltd

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• Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Being Free, Likes

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 114, 1973.

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• He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships

  Henry Cloud

  Secret, Want, Loved Ones

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• We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the question must be to what shall we owe our indenture? Will it be to truth or to falsehood, hope or despair, light or darkness? I choose to serve the light, even though that bondage often lies in darkness.

  Rick Yancey

  Lying, Light, Darkness

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• The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Ignorance, Men, History

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• In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible?
  Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Strong, Love Is

  "The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

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• If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Moments, Dare, Ifs

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.780, Manonmani Publishers

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• The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.

  Richard Kadrey

  Mom, Secret, Looks

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim, Book 3)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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