Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.
Quotes to Explore
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I really love storytelling.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
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I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.
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I love TV.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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You're not sick you're just in love.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I would love to do Broadway again.
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The only cause of happiness is love and the only cause of suffering is attachment to the ego (the continuing need to satisfy the self). If you understand this, you understand the work of Karma, cause and effect, perfectly. All suffering without exception comes from the desire for one's own personal happiness.
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Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.
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The cracks in your heart are there so the light can shine through.
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I do a lot of walking around in game parks, rain forests, places like that, but it's not like I'm camping in them as much as my day walks. I've done that all over the world, not like with a backpack on my back living out in the woods for several days. When I travel abroad, it's more the city that captures my interest.
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Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
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It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.
