Quotes about Mastered

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

But, Mr. Grewgious seeing nothing there, not even a light in the windows, his gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet- or seem likely to, in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.

Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.

God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it.

"Fear" in the biblical sense is a much broader word. It includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.