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Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
- Alice Hoffman
Since the life of the soul is bound to God, those who are by sin alienated from him are to be regarded as dead.
- John Calvin
We remain exposed to the judgment of God, we are bound by miserableĀ chains, and therefore our exemption from guilt, becomes an invaluableĀ freedom.
- John Calvin
The quiet, almost passive young woman struck him as exactly the kind of person to whom things were bound to happen, no matter how much she shrank from them and went out of her way to avoid them.
- Edith Wharton
Such verbal generosities were in fact only a humbugging disguise of the inexorable conventions that tied things together and bound people down to the old pattern.
- Edith Wharton
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a federal, and not a national constitution.
- Alexander Hamilton
God is not bound by the human presumption that we are the center of everything, and creation did not actually demand or need Jesus (or us, for that matter) to confer additional sacredness upon it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'm washed, I'm forgiven, I'm whole, and I'm healed. I'm cleansed and I'm glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth.
- Myles Munroe
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
- Emily Bronte
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.
- Charles Spurgeon