Confining Quotes

“Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.”
― Moutasem Algharati

“My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Maybe we should remember that logic constructs a box that is far too small for wonder to take up residence in. Therefore, the crucial question is, ‘Will we choose to live there if wonder cannot?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will that be considered too intimi-dating? And if the thoughts are proved to be untrue, but your friend still insists on believing in them anyway, would that be considered a cons-piracy?”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, One Hundred One World Accounts in One Hundred One Word Count

“If our cherished rubrics are in any way threatened, we immediately rise up and bring the whole our ourselves to bear in a rigorous defense of them. And might it be that what we’ve errantly defined as a ‘threat’ is in fact an act of liberation that we didn’t see as such simply because (unbeknownst to us) our rubrics have become our own asphyxiating prisons and we’ve become our own wardens. Hence, let us dare not confuse the rescue mission that we call Christmas with anything less than what it is.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t attempt to put people in a box that you have not spent some time in yourself. For once you do, you’ll rather quickly come to understand that people weren’t built for boxes. Rather, they were built to break them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Dreams are the things that remind us that our lives do not need to be lived within the confines of our doubts.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To imagine means being brave enough to refute the confines of the coward.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough