Binding Quotes:

No oath can be too binding for a lover.

- Sophocles

source: "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 848,

topic: Lovers, Oath, Binding

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

- Thomas Aquinas

source: Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “Philosophical Texts”

topic: Love Is, Force, Binding

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

- Anne Carson

source: Anne Carson (2009). “Men in the Off Hours”, p.95, Vintage

topic: Dear, Binding

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Men, Giving, Binding

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Hate, Human Nature, Traps, Binding

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

- Peter Kreeft

source: Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.30, Ignatius Press

topic: Love, Levels, Force, Binding

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

- Pauli Murray

source: Pauli Murray (2006). “Pauli Murray: Selected Sermons and Writings”

topic: Equality, Ties, Diversity, Reciprocity, Togetherness

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Fate, Inspirational True Love, Life Fate

Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

- Chris Bradford

source: Chris Bradford (2010). “The Way of the Dragon (Young Samurai, Book 3): The Way of the Dragon”, p.194, Penguin UK

topic: Teamwork, Strong, Together, Inspiring Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person's personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests ... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

- Brian Swimme

source: "The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story". Book by Brian Swimme, 1984.

topic: Passion, Destiny, Unique, Cosmology, Allure

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

- Barry Lopez

topic: Hands, Rivers, Water, Water Is Life, Water Resources

The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Passion, Duality, Passion And Desire

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Book, Demand, Binding

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

- Pliny the Younger

topic: People, Honor, Obligation, Binding

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

- Thomas Southerne

topic: Heaven, Crime, Court, Binding

The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Country, Law, Obligation, Natural Law, Laws Of Nature

The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.

- Peter Abelard

topic: Son, Example, Teach, Binding

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Dream, Imagination, Vision, Binding

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

- John Owen

topic: Liberty, May, Action, Binding

Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they accept the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Therefore, the candidate should be obligated on the Book of the Sacred Law which he accepts as such since his obligation is a solemn and binding one.

- George Washington

topic: Christian, Book, Men, Masonry, Binding

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

- Confucius

topic: Inspiration, Together, Way, Binding

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

- Thomas de Quincey

topic: Numbers, Promise, Ratios, Binding, Inverse

What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.

- Empedocles

topic: Light, Air, Sky, Lawfulness, Boundless

Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.

- Martin Luther

source: "The Freedom of a Christian" by Martin Luther, 1520.

topic: Healing, Mean, Law, Penitence, Contrition

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Men, Rome, Law, Unchangeable, Binding

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Peace, Together, And Love, Military Industrial Complex, Mutual Respect

I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

topic: Children, Book, Teaching, Binding, Walking Meditation

Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is.

- Peter Shepherd

topic: Children, Acceptance, Caring, Possessive, Possessive Love

As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.98, SCM Press

topic: Brother, Pain, Blessed, Binding

Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to rejectthe consensus of opinionand find reassurance only in her arms is binding her mate to her with hoops of steel that will strangle them both.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Husband, Pride, Reality, Binding

A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today

- Josh Groban

topic: Beautiful, Morning, Eye, Winds Of Change, Eyes Wide Open

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

- William Robertson Smith

source: William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

topic: Sacred, Essentials, Ancient, Worshippers, Binding

When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

- Lisa See

topic: Mother, Pain, Heart, Childbearing, One More Day

The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.

- D. A. Carson

topic: Jesus, Important, Truthful, Insisting, Binding

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

- William Carey

topic: Lord, Stills, Inspirational Missionary, Great Commission, Binding

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

- Donald Hall

topic: Form, Verses, Liberating, Free Verse, Binding

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

- Theodore White

topic: America, Political, Secular, Binding

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

- Christopher Dawson

source: Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.120, CUA Press

topic: Christian, Principles, Citizens, Binding

Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.

- Arthur Eddington

topic: Soul, Levers, Stones, Binding

My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

- Dalai Lama

source: The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.22, Hachette UK

topic: Ethical Principles, Binding

Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Law, Abortion, Facts, Binding

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

- Pope Pius XI

topic: Country, Men, Church, Binding

THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.

- William Blackstone

source: Sir William Blackstone (1973). “The Sovereignty of the Law: Selections from Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.29, Springer

topic: God, Country, Law, Natural Law, Laws Of Nature

Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating. Nothing stood the test of time, including me. Somewhere on the other shore were madness and God, sometimes both wearing a beard. Neither instilled much confidence.

- Mati Unt

topic: Depression, Children, Book, Test Of Time, Binding

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.

- Rufus King

topic: Law, Mankind, All Time, Binding

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.49

topic: Country, War, Blood, Binding

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

- Lynne Sharon Schwartz

source: Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.117, Beacon Press

topic: Book, Shipping, Printing, Feats, Binding

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

- Otto von Bismarck

topic: Struggle, Conflict, States, Struggle For Existence, Binding

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

- Stephen King

topic: Book, Gun, Cold, Binding

My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right...

- Gary Bettman

topic: Feelings, Should, Contracts, Binding

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.

- James Parton

source: James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.30

topic: Men, Romance, Mystery, Binding

Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want changed. Perhaps that is the very reason why we are here in this world, where sin and sorrow and suffering and evil abound, so that we may let You teach us so to react to them, that out of them we can create lovely qualities to live forever. That is really the only satisfactory way of dealing with evil. Not simply binding it so that it cannot work harm, but whenever possible overcoming it with good.

- Hannah Hurnard

topic: Thinking, Evil, Forever, Why We Are Here, Binding

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.

- Ray Bradbury

source: "Fahrenheit 451". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

topic: Art, Philosophy, Book, Many Homes, Binding

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

- John Lydon

topic: Records, Nonsense, Contracts, Binding