Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
Elisabeth Elliot
Quotes to Explore
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Ramakrishna
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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
Saint Ignatius
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Maajid Nawaz
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
Pat Buchanan
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Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
Carice van Houten
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
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Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.
Sam Harris
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
T. D. Jakes
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'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
Rainn Wilson
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Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.
N. T. Wright
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For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.
Karl Lehmann
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.
T. S. Eliot
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I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.
Ben Carson
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Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;Or at least, faith unbelief.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres
Margaret Atwood
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It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.
Jason Statham
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Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
Ian Mcewan
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We say that our world must think of and listen to consumers, and this is true, but not too much, in the sense that if you want to change and innovate, you must also think with your own head. Maybe you make choices that the market is not ready to accept but that will be accepted in 18 or 24 months.
Marco Bizzarri
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
Elisabeth Elliot
