Quotes about Imprisonment

When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

After two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And wishing to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

And when we did come out [of prison], my children said, "We thought we had a father and one day he'd come back. But to our dismay, our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

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

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

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.

Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.

When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.