Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.

Elisabeth Elliot

• Mother
• Prayer
• Silence
• Charity
• Sinning

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• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Star
  • Beginning

• My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Mother
  • Father
  • German

• I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Live
  • Thought

• My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Heart
  • She
  • America

• Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

  

  Samantha Power
  • America
  • Mother
  • Me

• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

  

  Indira Varma
  • Children
  • Why
  • Mother

• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Thought

• Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Important
  • Prayer
  • Most

• Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Mother

• My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • American
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I know-yet my arms are empty,That fondly folded seven,And the mother heart within meIs almost starved for heaven.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Heaven

• I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.

  

  Paz de la Huerta
  • Mother
  • Sorry

• Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Power
  • Prayer
  • Faint

• Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, 'It is better to make friends at home,' Anacharsis replied, 'Then you that are at home make friendship with me.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Door

• I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.

  

  Paula Poundstone
  • Cooking

• Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Mother
  • Prayer
  • Silence