Quotes about Traps

The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.

They now see with Heaven's eyes the schemes, traps, enticements, and entertainments of the world in a new way. So

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

The primitive races of mankind were terrified by the hydra that flew upon the water, by the dragon that belched fire, by the griffin, that aerial monster with wings on an eagle and a tiger's claws — fearful creatures beyond the control of men. But man sets his traps, the miraculous traps conceived by human intelligence, and in the end he captured them.

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.

The only hope for escaping the traps of the conditioned mind is to use its better nature as a thread,

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.