List of Helen Prejean Quotes

Time Rushes By And Yet Time Is Frozen. Funny How We Get So Exact About Time At The End Of Life And At Its Beginning. She Died At 6:08 Or 3:46, We Say, Or The Baby Was Born At 4:02. But In Between We Slosh Through Huge Swatches Of Time--weeks, Months, Years, Decades Even.

Remorse Presupposes Enough Self-forgetfulness To Feel The Pain Ofothers.

I Tell Myself That I Had Simply Better Accept The Fact That The Death Penalty Is Here To Stay In Our Society, At Least For A While, And There Is Nothing I Can Do About It. Maybe, In Time- After How Many Executions? - People Will Come To Realize The Futility Of Randomly Selecting A Few People To Die Each Year.

We Are Not The Worst Moments Of Our Lives. Sister Helen Prejean, Author Of Dead Man Walking.

To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is Divine.

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 Only Information They Get About Other People Is Through The Media.

When You Try, God Is There And You Get The Grace You Need To Get You Through.

Lavish Love On Others Receive It Gratefully When It Come To You. Cultivate Friendship Like A Garden. It Is The Best Love Of All.

I Keep Thinking Of The Gifts Of My Own Upbringing, Which I Once Took For Granted: I Can Read Any Book I Choose And Comprehend It. I Can Write A Complete Sentence And Punctuate It Correctly. If I Need Help, I Can Call On Judges, Attorneys, Educators, Ministers. I Wonder What I Would Be Like If I Had Grown Up Without Such Protections And Supports. What Cracks Would Have Turned Up In My Character?

There Are Spaces Of Sorrow Only God Can Touch.

Government ... Can't Be Trusted To Control Its Own Bureaucrats Or Collect Taxes Equitably Or Fill A Pothole, Much Less Decide Which Of Its Citizens To Kill.

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 A Gift, And You Write Them Down As Honestly And Cleanly As You Can.