Quotes about Entanglement
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
— Psalm 7:15
May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
— Psalm 69:22
For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
— Job 18:8
No one should be deceived by the glamor of the ceremonies and entangled in the multitude of pompous forms, and thus lose the simplicity of the mass itself
— Martin Luther
All societies are addicted to themselves and create deep codependency on them.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
As I'm coming to realize more and more, God holds everything together in a mysterious quantum entanglement. With each breath we participate in the life-death-life pattern that always ends in resurrection. My hope is that each of us will choose to participate consciously, aware of this privilege and delight in being co-creators with God. Just pray that I can do whatever God wants me to do.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.
— 2 Samuel 18:9
For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
— Nahum 1:10
Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.
— 2 Timothy 2:26
A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.
— 2 Timothy 2:4
Any personal entanglement might mean bother, and bother was the thing she most abhorred.
— Edith Wharton
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.
— Tullian Tchividjian