Quotes About Redemption

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'

The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.

As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.

I don't ever want to go back to prison.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

Going to prison actually helped save my life, I believe.

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him.

Prison, I don't want to go back there again.

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.

A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.

Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody.

I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.