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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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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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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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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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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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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Hiraeth means homesickness to a home to which you cannot return: the grief of the lost places of your past. I fell in love with the word and instantly connected to it. It reminded me of the days when I had left my home in Gwalior, and I had that strange pull in my stomach, and now I can so relate to this word.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
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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.
