Jim Elliot Quotes

Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.

Jim Elliot

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• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Never
  • Criticism

• My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Picture
  • Favorite

• Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Brain
  • Start
  • You Can Do It

• I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Days
  • April
  • Along

• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Positive
  • Attitude
  • Stress

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Matter

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Christian

• A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Mistakes

• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Turn

• The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Party
  • Beauty
  • Democratic

• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Effort

• I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Money
  • Single
  • Mom

• Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is.

  

  Charlotte Green
  • Women
  • Relationship
  • Sadness

• If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Everything
  • Meaning
  • Then

• Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Dream
  • Wonder
  • Worthy