Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.
Quotes to Explore
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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Never try to help God fulfill His word.
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This by no means the last word on the Chinese in America. This is my personal interpretation of the 150-year epic history of Chinese in this country.
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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
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MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)...
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I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.
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I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.
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I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.
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We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.
