Quotes about Prison

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

As they were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?” “Do you speak Greek?” he replied.

This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.

Moses could not sing this way. He is a minister of prison, a teacher of drudgery, an originator of servitude, or, as Paul usually calls him, "A minister of death, sin, and sadness" (2 Cor. 3:9). In antithesis to him we wish to sing of a kingdom that is delightful, free, and full of joy.

When Jesus heard that John had been imprisoned, He withdrew to Galilee.

But the early Christians—who themselves knew only too well that the world had not turned into Utopia overnight and that they still faced suffering, prison, and death—firmly believed that what had happened on the cross was the Messianic victory. That is why they told the story the way they did.

Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.”

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. Now you may go on your way in peace.”