I, Judas Quotes

“Piety without joy, faith without cheer, duty without pleasure, prayer without delight—these do not please the Lord God.”
― Taylor Caldwell, I, Judas: A Novel

“He had come to shock the people out of their complacency. This was evident in his every word. There were no sacred sheep in his flock.”
― Taylor Caldwell, I, Judas: A Novel

“And how,” asked the fiery Joshua-bar-Abbas, “do we know at what point the character of a people weakens? It is not like a man who deteriorates through his thoughts and actions before your very eyes.” “When they give over to government,” said Nicodemus, “those duties which they should be pleased to perform themselves. When they are told they will be fed and sheltered even when they won’t work, when they are promised security from the cradle to the grave, when they are told the state will take over the supervision of their children and say what schooling they should receive and where. When they are told all these”
― Taylor Caldwell, I, Judas

“I have not come to put new patches on old garments.”
― Taylor Caldwell, I, Judas: A Novel

“what was needed in any battle was not the wise and the thoughtful, but the unwary who would follow their leader to the death, like sheep if need be, without too much counting the cost or the cause.”
― Taylor Caldwell, I, Judas: A Novel