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I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.
— Leymah Gbowee
Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
— Richard Baxter
Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be.
— Rick Warren
The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.
— Thomas Watson
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
— Elie Wiesel
One person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
— Elie Wiesel
Many persecuted believers have thrived in the desert of prison. Perpetua, a third-century Christian who was imprisoned and martyred for her faith, said of her prison cell: "The dungeon became to me as it were a palace, so that I preferred being there to being elsewhere." Do not be fearful of dry times in your spiritual life. Tap into the Bridegroom, seeking only His living water and you will thrive.
— Richard Wurmbrand
How many Christians of the free world visit communist countries and other nations where Christians are persecuted but never ask permission to visit a jail and encourage their brothers and sisters in pain?
— Richard Wurmbrand
I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.
— Richard Wurmbrand
Often, after a secret service, Christians were caught and sent to prison. There, Chris
— Richard Wurmbrand
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