Quotes about Prisoner
What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts,
— Nelson Mandela
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
— Joshua 8:23
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
— Max Lucado
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner.
— Max Lucado
Lewis Smedes points out, "The first and often the only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness. . . . When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.
— Philip Yancey
In humility is the greatest freedom. As soon as you begin to take yourself seriously and imagine that your virtues are important because they are yours, you become the prisoner of your own vanity and even your best works will blind and deceive you. Then, in order to defend yourself, you will begin to see sins and faults everywhere in the actions of other[s].
— Thomas Merton
Forgiveness inspires a decree from the King, which in turn gives us authority to command these evil spirits to release their prisoner.
— Kris Vallotton
But I found he had done nothing worthy of death, and since he has now appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.
— Acts 25:25
My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you greetings, as does Mark the cousin of Barnabas. You have already received instructions about him: If he comes to you, welcome him.
— Colossians 4:10
Now it was Pilate’s custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.
— Mark 15:6
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings,
— Philemon 1:23
For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”
— Acts 25:27