Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.

Elisabeth Elliot

• Joy
• Christian
• Jesus
• Happiness
• Self-assertion

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
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• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

  

  Samuel Larsen
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• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  

  Randall Terry
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• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
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  • May
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• Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Time
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• When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Character
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• When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Work
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  • Journey

• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Different
  • America
  • Always

• If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • God
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• Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• Be. If I could be Jesus for just a day and have it my way, if I Could be perfect, like the light - Jesus for a night and have It my way - if I could be Atop my mountain a phenomenon - when I walk on water I am Complete, at peace and I'd make it so you'd be just like me.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Night
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  • Peace

• 'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Joy
  • Selfish

• 'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Happiness
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• Jesus Is All the World to Me.

  

  Ben Carson
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• Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;Or at least, faith unbelief.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Hope
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• I was looking for joy Yes, yes, yes, yes When I was little bitty boy If I would have known what makes a world go 'round I would have known what goes up must come down If you love me like I love you Mademoiselle, je vous aime, voulez-vous?

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • World
  • Joy

• I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Fiction
  • Watch

• I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Sometimes
  • Piano
  • Somebody

• We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

  

  Angela Braly
  • Question
  • Health

• I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Trying
  • Attitude
  • Request

• As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

  

  Josh Young
  • Art
  • Care
  • Body

• The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Joy
  • Christian
  • Jesus