Spiritual Slavery Quotes

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes you outwards. All your possessions will be outwards: your wife, your husband, your children, your body - your body is outside you; your mind - your mind is outside you. The only thing that is not outside you is the witnessing. Just the watchfulness - that is your buddha. Identification means losing witnessing, falling into the trap of attachment. That is our misery, that is our slavery.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.