Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Thinking
  • Advice
  • Consistent

• In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Period
  • Modern

• Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Stop

• There was a weird moment where-I was still a drummer, I always saw myself as a drummer-and we got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking 'Wow, I really need to take singing more seriously!'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Crazy

• Now, the smoke fills the airIn this honky-tonk bar.And I'm thinking 'bout where I'd rather be.But I burned all my bridges;I sank all my ships.And I'm stranded at the edge of the sea.

  

  James Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Sea

• Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Home

• With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Real

• My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

  

  bell hooks
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Fear

• Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Thinking

• I imagine if you're one of those genius people working on AI, the desire to find out what's possible is presumably the driving factor, but I hope there are just as many people who are thinking about what we actually want. Just because something's possible it doesn't mean it's going to be good to us.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• People love my voice because they say I say what they were thinking but dare not to say because they had a filter or a job.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Job

• Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Thinking
  • Creativity

• If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Food

• You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

  

  Jamie Parker
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Character

• So many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.

  

  Daniel Keyes
  • Thinking
  • Learning

• If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

  

  Lucas Black
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • inspirational

• Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Great
  • God
  • Church

• While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.

  

  John Catsimatidis

• We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Thinking
  • Scripture