Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
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I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.
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The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.
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For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].
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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
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Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
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I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.
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The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.
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There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.
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In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
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The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.
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I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.
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Los Angeles was a place after my own heart. The people were hospitable. The country had the same attraction for me that it had for the Indians who originally chose this spot as their place to live. The Los Angeles River was a beautiful, limpid little stream, with willows on its banks. It was so attractive to me that it at once became something about which my whole scheme of life was woven, I loved it so much.
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We have good personal relationship with President Obama, our relations are quite frank and business-like. And this is quite enough to do our job.
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She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.
