Adoniram Judson Quotes

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.

I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.

There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.

God answers all true prayer either in kind or in kindness.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.