Quotes About Lepers

#1. I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.

Father Damien

#2. Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.

Helen McCarthy

#3. Was unhappiness really so invisible? Or did people simply prefer to turn away, as if from lepers?

Sherry Thomas

#4. Us elderly are the modern lepers.

David Mitchell

#5. How else can we become reconciled, except one individual at a time? This Jesus you seek did not come to address nations. He washed the wounds of lepers. He dined with sinners. He healed all who came to him. One person at a time.

Janette Oke

#6. 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 and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.

L. Ron Hubbard

#7. Smokers are the lepers of the twenty-first century.

Jim Stevens

#8. 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 of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.

Father Damien

#9. 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 streets and I find the same Jesus hidden in the dying destitute, the AIDS patients, the lepers, the abandoned children, the hungry, and the homeless. It's the same Jesus.

Mother Teresa

#10. I'm not alive." She heard fury climbing to the top of his voice. "I'm a leper. Outcast unclean. Lepers are ugly and filthy. And abominable." His words filled her with horror and protest. "How can it be?" she moaned. "You are not - abominable. What world is it that dares treat you so?

Stephen R. Donaldson

#11. 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! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?

Leon Uris

#12. I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.

Tama Janowitz

#13. You don't need to cure the lepers to be a faith healer. We're all of us in my business doing the same work, because what is faith but another story that you tell yourself to feel better?

John Joseph Adams

#14. With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

Bob Dylan

#15. HE TEN LEPERS: Handling ingratitude with disapproval-
And Jesus Answer, were there not 10 cleansed but where are 9?

Ikechukwu Joseph

#16. Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.

Bharati Mukherjee

#17. 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, but only one had the faith to be made whole. The tenth leper [was] changed eternally by [his] faith in the Savior and the healing power of his atonement.

Merrill J. Bateman

#18. But I long to have a really good time for once and to laugh so hard it hurts. We're stuck in this house like lepers,

Anne Frank

#19. Those who serve and those who rule
Lepers, kings and mindless fools
Empire leaders, tyrant's tools
All will fade with time
Hail the cowards, brave at heart
The ugly and the beautiful
Those who never felt their souls
All live transient lives

Kreator

#20. 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

#21. The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your ruin, the more they will be outcast.

Umberto Eco

#22. Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Lazarus, and the shackles for Paul. God gets us through stuff.

Max Lucado

#23. Secondly, if we continue to view ourselves as moral lepers and spiritual failures, if our lives are shadowed by low self-esteem, shame, remorse, unhealthy guilt, and self-hatred, we reject the teaching of Jesus and cling to our negative self-image. In

Brennan Manning

#24. When you look around Addis and see children barefoot and shivering in the rain, when you see the lepers begging for their next morsel, does any of that Monophysitic nonsense matter the least bit?" Matron

Abraham Verghese

#25. What chance has a Saint Francis, if his Assisi is a multicultured, financial, unyieldingly secular northern city, whose lepers and other detrimentals are charges on the public purse?

Robertson Davies

#26. And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.

Conor Oberst

#27. 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 probably call them 'parts-dropping-off challenged' or something.

Christopher Moore

#28. AIDS is the leprosy of the 21st Century. Where did Jesus hang out? With lepers. Jesus would love on people with AIDS.

Rick Warren

#29. God asked us to cast out demons, heal the sick, cleanse lepers but we cast out the sick, raise d demons, cleanse d dead...

Ikechukwu Joseph

#30. 'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

Michael Patrick King

#31. Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, "Diable! Diable!" And then chants of some sort, or prayers, followed by more shouts of "Diable!" They were hurling these words at Moreau like stones.

Cole Alpaugh

#32. You have beautiful hair ... and she reached out to touch it, her bejeweled fingers gently caressing my head. A tear slipped down my cheek. I knew how the lepers felt when Jesus touched them and made them whole again.

Lynn Austin

#33. When we judge a brother's or sister's sin as so much worse than our own, we are like lepers counting spots. She has more than I do.

Beth Moore

#34. Cops need criminals, doctors need disease, and saints need lepers.

Donald O'Donovan

#35. That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

Alan Rickman