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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Career
  • Desire
  • Retirement

• The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • God
  • Mind
  • Value

• In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.

  

  John Wycliffe
  • God
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Time
  • Power
  • Desire

• Men study science as god not the God of science.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • God
  • Men
  • Science

• I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Good
  • Work
  • High

• What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

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

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Desire
  • Hearts