Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Soul
  • Growth
  • Someone

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• 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

• Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • True
  • Soul

• For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Wife

• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • For Her

• I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Team
  • Teach
  • Where

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  

  Edith Stein
  • True
  • Soul
  • Single

• To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Soul
  • Sun
  • Beach

• Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Soul
  • You
  • Something

• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Light

• If thou couldst trust, poor soul!In Him who rules the whole,Thou wouldst find peace and rest;Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Rest

• In the desert of my dreams I saw you there;And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare.But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed.And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared.Oh why?

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Dream that the lips once breathlessMight quicken if they would;Say that the soul is deathless;Dream that the gods are good;Say March may wed September,And time divorce regret;But not that you remember,And not that I forget.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • Writing
  • School
  • Soul

• I'm everywhere; I'm just a soul that's floating around here on earth.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Soul
  • Earth

• If Love dwelt not in Trouble, it could have nothing to love. But its substance which it loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble and pain, it hath thence cause to love this its own substance and to deliver it from pain, that so itself may by it be again beloved.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • May
  • Soul
  • Pain

• It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • People
  • World
  • God

• By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes his glory to pass before the soul that seeks him, you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort, than by a day or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios.

  

  John Newton
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Soul

• All I want for my career is I want to work with the best directors and I want to be treated like a Caucasian man would be.

  

  Mena Massoud
  • Want
  • Career
  • Directors

• A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Evil

• Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Soul
  • Teach
  • Treat