#bondage

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still. ↗

— Thomas More

#disguise #our #rules #still #tis

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#bondage #church #delivering #did #every

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#bondage #christian #civilization #debt #deprived

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#along #bondage #came #chew #freedom

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#impatience #independence #mark

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#color #distinction #emancipation #every #go

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#body #bondage #even #exist #freedom

Flutters awakened inside her as he fitted his hands at her waist. "What if I don't like it? What if I want you to stop?" "You'll have a safe word. The second you say it, I'll stop." "What if I forget my safe word?" His lips twitched. "All you have to do is answer a security question, and I'll send you an e-mail to reset it. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#funny #humor #jason #justine #kinbaku

Some people walk through a hallway with covered mirrors– the hallway is lined with mirrors but there are blankets covering each of them. They go through life believing in an image of themselves that isn't real, and an image of themselves standing in the world and relative to the world, that isn't real. If you happen to be in that hallway and pull the blankets off the mirrors, they're going to think that you're hurting them; but they're actually just seeing their reflection for the first time. Sometimes the most horrendous thing a person can see, is all the hidden things inside them, the things they've covered, the things they choose not look at. And you're not hurting them, you're setting them free. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#freedom #inspirational-life #inspirational-living #reality-check #self-acceptance