Captivity Quotes
81 quotes by 69 authors
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We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!
— Louie Giglio
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Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity
— Martin Luther
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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great…
— Martin Luther
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The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us…
— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
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Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give - my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,…
— Elizabeth Prentiss
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Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose…
— Robert D. Hales
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The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to the…
— Sheena Iyengar
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Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.
— Evelyn Waugh
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If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're…
— Hugh Lofting
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The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
— Willa Cather
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A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal that the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
— Sam Brownback
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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…
— Vincent de Paul
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For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made…
— Joseph Conrad
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No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to…
— Hilda Solis
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There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
— Amanda Lindhout
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The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I…
— Amanda Lindhout
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
— Abraham Lincoln
Who Wrote These Captivity Quotes
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