Quotes about Chains

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break....love did what hatred can not and never will.

Hate is a powerful weapon. But it is powerless when it comes to cutting chains off the human heart.

Some are wrestling with painful words spoken over them by someone they love or walking around in chains of their own making.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

A man escaped from his cell is not free who still drags his chain.)

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

If some of those who listen to our sermons reject the message, that is not our worry - as long as it is truly the kerygma that we preach, and not some feeble imitation of it. Rejection is built into the vocation of the preacher. But hear this: The incarnate Word of God is a mighty sword put into your hand. Those who hear it will feel their chains cut off, their prison unlocked, their lungs filled with oxygen:

I will buy you back with My blood because I love you. I will free you from the chains of sin. I will settle the conflict within and give peace to your soul. But you must come to Me with a repentant heart. You must be willing to be redeemed. You must exchange your sin-blackened heart for a new heart that is cleansed by My blood.

Every tone [of the songs of the slaves] was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.