Jim Elliot Quotes

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

Jim Elliot

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• It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Control
  • Car

• Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Grateful
  • Student
  • Delightful

• Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

  

  Gail Collins
  • World
  • Remember
  • History

• Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Situation

• Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • Time
  • Vampire

• We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Jesus
  • Pray
  • Wants

• It was just a general feeling I have. I'm looking for someone to really establish themselves as the quarterback, take over and take off with the team.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Feeling
  • Team
  • Quaterback

• I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Believe
  • Tree
  • Granted

• Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Goal
  • France
  • Argentina

• Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Why
  • Behinds

• The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Live
  • Die

• Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I have been brought to my emotional knees, but not in regard to the science of this topic, ... I am a devastated, broken, grieving mother, but I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue.

  

  Christine Maggiore
  • Understanding
  • Emotional
  • Knees

• He looked good, like sin in a suit.

  

  Melissa Marr
  • Sin
  • Suits

• I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'

  

  Gattlin Griffith
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Nice

• Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Waves

• That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Saint
  • Knees
  • Retreat