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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.
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I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.
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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.
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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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.
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God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.
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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.
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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.
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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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.
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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!!!!
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I wonder where that bat is now? Maybe he's sitting in Bat Heaven somewhere, with his own bat roadies...
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Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
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The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.
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I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.
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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.
