Adoniram Judson Quotes
Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.Adoniram Judson
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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No one person is an island.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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I wouldn't want to be President now!
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I can't believe that women have got to put on so much in the morning. What time do women wake up? Man, I put a t-shirt and jeans on, and that's it.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Clifford Shull -
Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.
Adoniram Judson