Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
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Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
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An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.
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We thank God that our enemies are idiots. (6 February 2006) 10
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Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
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We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.
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Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody.
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I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family.
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Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
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Hollywood must have been terrific once.
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I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
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Virginity is something that can be offered to God.
