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• Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free.

  Ernest Holmes

  Love Is, Iron, Bars

  Ernest Holmes (1984). “Living the Science of Mind: The Only Writings by the Founder of SCIENCE OF MIND to Help You Understand His Classic Textbook”, p.331, DeVorss & Company

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• Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

  John of the Cross

  Heart, Soul, World

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• I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

  Robert Smith

  Marine, Marine Corps, Relation

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• Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Jesus, Memories

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Jesus for the Non-Religious”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.

  Jon Anderson

  Ambition, Power, Design

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• Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

  Robert Kegan

  Strange, Tradition, Lifestyle

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• It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our own virtue but 'it is the Lord who lifts up those who were laid low' (Ps. 145:8). It is not application to reading but 'it is the Lord who gives light to the blind' (Ps. 145:8). It is not our cautiousness but 'it is the Lord who protects the stranger' (Ps. 145:9). It is not our endurance but 'it is the Lord who raises or gives support to the fallen' (Ps. 144:14).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Reading, Light

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.95, Paulist Press

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• Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Grace, Sin

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• Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to severe measures only in extreme cases, for fear lest the hardship they are already enduring in their state of captivity, joined to the strictness you might want to exercise in virtue of your authority, drive them to despair. . . . It is not light they need, but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Exercise, Light

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.

  Lucretia Mott

  Doors, Land, Vision

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• The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

  Jane Mayer

  Taken, Ideas, People

  "The Biscuit Torturers of the U.S. Military". www.dailykos.com. July 06, 2005.

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• Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Mind, Admiration

  John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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• Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

  Giordano Bruno

  Support, Liberty, Depth

  Giordano Bruno (1889). “The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori): An Ethical Poem”

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• Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

  Saint Augustine

  Lord

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• And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good-to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.

  L. Tom Perry

  Sick, Affliction, Riches

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• Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

  Bob Marley

  Wipe, Breaking Down, Transgression

  Song: Exodus, Album: Exodus, 1977

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• What good's a captive without her captor?

  Adam Johnson

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• On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

  William Watson

  Guests, Rooms, Host

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• If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

  Michelle Shocked

  Media, Use, Social

  Source: www.spin.com

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• Zion, thou art doubtless anxious for news of thy captives; they ask after thee, they who are the remainder of thy flock.

  Judah Halevi

  Art, Zion, News

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• If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mean, Sheep, Aquariums

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• What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Bored, World

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The plan of God for your life is that you should be held captive by His power, doing that which you in the natural world would never do, but that which you are forced to do by the power of the Holy Ghost moving through you.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Moving, World, Ghost

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• When Chris­tians in free countries win a soul for Christ, the new believer may become a member of a quietly living church. But when those in captive nations win someone, we know that he may have to go to prison and that his children may become or­phans. The joy of having brought someone to Christ is always mixed with this feeling that there is a price that must be paid.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Country, Children, Winning

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• I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting.

  Edmund Morgan

  Teaching, Ideas, People

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