Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action. They have no authority. A life lived in God is not lived on the plane of the feelings, but of the will. In Scripture the heart is the will - the man himself, the spring of all action, the ruling power bestowed on him by his Creator, capable of choosing and acting.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• Authority
• Scripture
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• If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Action
  • President
  • Barack Obama

• Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Action
  • Always
  • Human

• I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Like

• We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Important
  • Power
  • Science

• A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • True
  • Man

• Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Action
  • More
  • Preparation

• You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Action
  • Politics

• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Action

• I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Me
  • Anxiety
  • Emotions

• With 'Rachaa' I get back to action. It has very edgy action.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Action
  • Back
  • Edgy

• It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Political
  • Community
  • Action

• I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Action
  • White

• By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

  

  Mahavira
  • Man
  • Action
  • Speech

• I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity
  • Emotions

• If an action ... involves little profit but much righteousness, do it.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Action

• Grace is not opposed to effort. It is opposed to earning. Effort is action. Earning is attitude. You have never seen people more active than those who have been set on fire by the grace of God.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • God
  • Action

• It seems to me that any action that arbitrarily limits the citizen's access to sight, sound and print, upon which opinion can be based, is, in the true sense of the phrase, un-American.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • American
  • True
  • Action

• In refusing to face evil, Sinclair has gained nothing and lost a great deal; the Buddhist scripture expenses it: those who refuse to discriminate might as well be dead.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Evil

• Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Respect
  • Me

• I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

  

  Kenneth Koch
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Encouraging

• Funniest thing happened though, you wouldn't believe it, ha, the mannequins came to life. I went insane.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Insane

• The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action. They have no authority. A life lived in God is not lived on the plane of the feelings, but of the will. In Scripture the heart is the will - the man himself, the spring of all action, the ruling power bestowed on him by his Creator, capable of choosing and acting.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Action
  • Emotions
  • Authority