I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense.

~ Criss Jami

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Sometimes the shackles of oneself are worse than those of others.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

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You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

~ Sanhita Baruah

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It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world. You were snared. You were hooked. But you don't have to stay that way. Now is the time to deal with the shackles that keep you enslaved. Today you can leave the prison that sexual immorality has created from your past mistakes. Hear your Father's voice call out to you above the noisy clamor of our culture. He says, I love you. You're free to go now. Sexual sin has no hold on you.

~ Craig Groeschel

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I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off.

~ Jasmine Warga

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Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him. The branches tore at my skin in an effort to bind me, while weeds sought to shackle my ankles, so that I could go no further. The pain they caused was minor, when I compared it to the searing inferno at my core.

~ J.d. Stroube

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Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.

~ Aisha Mirza

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The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captive—be that from a person, a government, or one’s inner self—the scars are deeply engraved into one’s psyche, and there’s no remedy for the soul. Many have the misconception that freedom equals happiness forever and ever.That’s a wicked delusion.

~ Laura Kreitzer

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Please don't waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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