Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • God
  • Live
  • Alone

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • God
  • Pride

• When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • You
  • Fear

• I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • You
  • Person

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

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • God
  • May
  • War

• Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Light

• Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Desire

• It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• We felt the universe wuz safe, an' God wuz on his throne.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • God
  • Universe

• I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good. … Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• 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

• It is false to say that what we don’t know can’t hurt us, especially when it comes to the Bible. If ever there were anything we need to know, it is the very Word of God. That said, what is in all likelihood worse than what we don’t know about the Bible is what we do know that just isn’t so.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • God
  • Hurt
  • Needs

• I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. … Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy,' you know? And it's really true. … Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Famous
  • Creativity
  • Talent

• At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Small

• It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

  

  Iain Dowie
  • Football
  • Favour
  • Everton

• 'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal.

  

  Kadmi Cohen
  • Time

• God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Desire
  • Hearts