Jim Elliot Quotes
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.
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It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
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I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.
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Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?
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Habit is Heaven's own redress:it takes the place of happiness.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace and they have real consequences on the every day lives of workers.
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God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
