Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

  

  Patrick White
  • Trying
  • Faith
  • Air

• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Women
  • Faith
  • Bible

• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Always

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I am an ordinary person.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Person
  • Ordinary

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • See

• The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Faith
  • Food
  • Curious

• The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • Faith

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Attitude

• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Faith
  • Wish
  • Advice

• I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Real
  • Faith
  • Cool

• Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • People
  • Hope
  • Faith

• There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Time
  • God
  • Help

• Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Service
  • Greatness

• Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Literature

• I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Wrote
  • Right Way

• A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Tread

• Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Faith
  • Ordinary
  • Exercised