Adoniram Judson Quotes

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Always remember this. Television, fame, money - listen, here is a news flash for America. Fame cannot remove your sin. And all of the money you ever amass cannot raise you from the dead.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.