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«I am driven / Into a desperate strait and cannot steer / A middle course.»
«It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul»
«And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: strait, straits
«The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: strait, straits
«Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fatness, set on, strait, straits
«Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, / Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: strait
«Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it (Matthew 7:14).»
Author: Bible | Keywords: strait
«Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: / Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: strait
«Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.»
«And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Elisha, strait, straits