Quotes About Redemption

Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.

When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as a person.

The cross is to be our point of reference for every area of our lives all the time.

Pennsylvania, like every other state in our society, has to begin to adopt and refine the idea of mercy and redemption for our criminal populations.

Boxing saved my life. There were a lot of gangs and I was hanging around with the wrong people.

There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.

Falling is a hard thing to do whether you are a Christian or not, but when you are in Christ, it comes with a deep sadness for letting your Savior down.

I put my heart into my career, and the people knew that I did that; and I went from being the most hated man to one of the best loved.

I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.

When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have.

Every generation has a right to hear the Gospel, the ABC's of the Gospel - the Gospel of salvation.

I've been through a lot and if God can use that story to help people through a lot of pain and heartache and share hope with people, well we'll see how it progresses.

I need to win back the hearts of the critics and the skeptics.

If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

Jesus is the only true way to Heaven.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.

I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan and an addict.

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather.