Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • God
  • Writing
  • Love

• I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • God
  • Night

• I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Universe

• It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Amazing
  • Start

• I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman year - with Vanessa Williams, by the way. She and I are still friends. We went to high school together.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • More

• Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • God
  • Earth

• There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Question

• 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

• Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Energy
  • Heaven
  • Thoughts

• Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Freedom

• If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • God

• We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• Oh, god, where's the fuckin' bottle, you fuckin' whore?! DID HE FUCK YOU WITH THIS TOO?! Yes- OH, SHUT UP!!! HE DID EVERYTHING TO YOU, OH, GOD!!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God

• I wonder where that bat is now? Maybe he's sitting in Bat Heaven somewhere, with his own bat roadies...

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Heaven
  • Wonder

• God deserves more love than the world gives him. Men, too, need more love than they receive from the world. Our community wants to take her place where these two needs meet.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Good
  • God
  • Rooms

• The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • God
  • Truth
  • Bible

• The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Know
  • Democracy

• In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Football
  • Opportunities

• History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Like
  • Write

• Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Question
  • Heaven