Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, "What will you give me if I betray him ...to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet I well remember The favors of these men. Were they not mine?... Did they not sometimes cry "All hail!" to me? So Judas did to Christ; but He, in twelve, Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas tree ...will bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, ...He even provided a first instalment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputat...ion to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In ancient shadows and twilights Where childhood had strayed,... The world's great sorrows were born And its heroes were made. In the lost boyhood of Judas Christ was betrayed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »