Adoniram Judson famous quotes

04-17-2025

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.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Sacrifice #Succeed #Without Sacrifice
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Prayer #Blessing #Giving
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
-- Adoniram Judson

#Religion #Missionary #Christianity
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.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Suffering #Trials #Infinite
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.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Christian #Jesus #Men
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Let Me
The future is a bright as the promises of God.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Promise
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.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Prayer #Shapes #Matter
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Years #Twenties #Obscurity
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'
-- Adoniram Judson

#Rivers #Joy #Comfort
No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Mind #Temporary
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Pride #Facts #Reason
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Prayer #Kindness #Answers
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Running #Prayer #Answers
We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Blessed #Boston #Missionary
I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last...
-- Adoniram Judson

#Missionary #Daylight #Lasts
I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Forever #Crosses #Burma
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.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Home #Tired #World
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Giving #Desire #Use
Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Christian #Prayer #Adoption
After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Christian #Baptism #Taught

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