Lepers Quotes
24 quotes by 21 authors
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[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Like Mary, let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the…
— Mother Teresa
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I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns…
— Valerie Harper
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I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the…
— Mother Teresa
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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
— Alan Rickman
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I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked,…
— Mother Teresa
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But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years…
— Shane Claiborne
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A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty!…
— Leon Uris
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Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because…
— Rick Warren
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Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.
— Peter Lewis Allen
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I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.
— Father Damien
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I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea…
— Father Damien
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Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after day…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.
— Bob Dylan
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Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never…
— John Fugelsang
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In becoming a whole person, the grateful leper was healed inside as well as on the outside. That day nine lepers were healed skin deep,…
— Merrill J. Bateman
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a…
— Gail Collins
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Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that…
— John Green
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I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You…
— Christopher Moore
Who Wrote These Lepers Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 Lepers Quotes as follows: