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> [Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/writing-is-like-praying-because-you-stop-all-other-activities-descend/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

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## More by Helen Prejean

> [Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/government-can-t-be-trusted-to-control-its-own-bureaucrats-or-collect/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/when-people-of-color-are-killed-in-the-inner-city-when-homeless/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/people-are-more-than-the-worst-thing-they-have-ever-done-in-their/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/if-you-are-going-to-do-something-for-the-poor-the-abused-or-the/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/writing-is-like-praying-because-you-stop-all-other-activities-descend/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/the-important-thing-is-that-when-you-come-to-understand-something-you/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [“no government is ever innocent enough or wise enough or just enough to lay claim to so absolute a power as death. (p. 21)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/no-government-is-ever-innocent-enough-or-wise-enough-or-just-enough/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/there-are-spaces-of-sorrow-only-god-can-touch/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/i-tell-myself-that-i-had-simply-better-accept-the-fact-that-the-death/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [ “The prospect that a person will be killed according to the policy he promulgates prompts the \[priest\] to urge clemency, an incomprehensible position logically.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/the-prospect-that-a-person-will-be-killed-according-to-the-policy-he/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/once-you-inject-fear-into-a-society-of-people-they-become-more-and/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [“Nonviolence and nonaggression are generally regarded as interchangeable concepts - King and Gandhi frequently used them that way - but nonviolence, as employed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/nonviolence-and-nonaggression-are-generally-regarded-as/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/the-death-penalty-is-a-poor-person-s-issue-always-remember-that-after/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/do-they-deserve-to-die-but-do-we-deserve-to-kill-them/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

> [When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/when-you-try-god-is-there-and-you-get-the-grace-you-need-to-get-you/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

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