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Quotes about Prison

Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.
— Rick Warren
An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.
— Joe Biden
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
— Malcolm X
On the day he was released, the man walked out the gates, turned, and to the astonishment of the guards, kissed the walls of the prison camp. "Here," he explained, "I found God, and He found me, and I am so thankful.
— Zig Ziglar
And then we'll be emulating Socrates,* once we're able to write hymns of praise in prison.
— Epictetus
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.
— Tony Evans
The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.
— Joyce Meyer
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
— Oscar Wilde
Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.
— Nelson Mandela
It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
— Ann Voskamp