Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Words
  • Faith
  • End

• When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • End
  • Tests
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • Faith
  • Actions

• 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
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Faith

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Truth
  • Earth

• I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Beautiful
  • Faith
  • Wonderful

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Tests
  • Laboratory

• 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
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Remember

• What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Things
  • Evidence

• When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Faith
  • Stars
  • Generation

• Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Faith

• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Confident

• Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Faith

• My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.

  

  Amy Jo Johnson
  • Faith
  • Mom

• Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Service
  • Greatness

• Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

  

  Mary Matalin
  • People
  • Good
  • Nature

• If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

  

  Virender Sehwag
  • Kind
  • Games
  • Situation

• Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Faith
  • Evidence
  • Tests