Quotes about Constraint

I say therefore that he sins against the Holy Spirit who, while so constrained by the power of divine truth that he cannot plead ignorance, yet deliberately resists, and that merely for the sake of resisting.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

But nothing external to God can possibly constrain him. If he chooses to restore a broken universe, it is because he "wants" to, because, for example, he loves it and wants the best for it. But he is free to do as he wills, and his character (Who He Is) controls his will.

Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or abridged.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

I am pretty controlled I have to say.

Whatever limits us,we call Fate

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Yahweh is not unfettered but is constrained by a hard, relentless commitment made to Israel. The very character of Yahweh, as Yahweh has articulated that identity, gives Moses and Israel a toehold against God and a space from which to speak imperatives that Yahweh must heed.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.