There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear
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The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.
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That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
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Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner!
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I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about other people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
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There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.
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Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
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I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
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And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.
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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Philippians 1:13:
As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.
(NIV)
So much is this a fact that throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest [here] my imprisonment has become generally known to be in Christ [that I am a prisoner in His service and for Him].
(AMP)
So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
(KJV)
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a mise...
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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Ephesians 4:1:
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
(NIV)
I THEREFORE, the prisoner for the Lord, appeal to and beg you to walk (lead a life) worthy of the [divine] calling to which you have been called [with behavior that is a credit to the summons to God's service
(AMP)
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
(KJV)
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Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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Ephesians 3:1:
For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles –
(NIV)
FOR THIS reason [because I preached that you are thus built up together], I, Paul, [am] the prisoner of Jesus the Christ for the sake and on behalf of you Gentiles--
(AMP)
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
(KJV)
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The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom ...
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