Quotes about Constraint

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Necessity knows no law.

For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.

the mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . .

faith is a free work to which no one can be forced. Heresy is a spiritual matter and cannot be prevented by constraint. Force may avail either to strengthen alike faith and heresy, or to break down integrity and turn a heretic into a hypocrite who confesses with his lips what he does not believe in his heart. Better to let men err than to drive them to lie".

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.