A Quote by Max Lucado

As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.

Max Lucado

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Max Lucado
American - Priest
Born: January 11, 1955

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Henri Matisse

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Corrie Ten Boom

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

Robert Breault

A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

Beth Moore

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

Tennessee Williams

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

Al Goldstein

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Lewis B. Smedes

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

John Selden

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

Mahatma Gandhi

I used to make training films for the U.S. government. I was always cast as a madman or a prisoner. I once played a prisoner who was holding himself hostage with a razor blade.

Michael Emerson

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision. ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.

Lewis B. Smedes

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.