Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.
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I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.
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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
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I find that life is easier when it is just a blurWith no details to confuse who or what or where I wasSo when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure
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I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.
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Together we are building a new Mexico.
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It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
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Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.
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I tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.
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Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.
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I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes.
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Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.
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Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual growth of their congregates. We have generations of young people in our churches who simply believe what the world believes on social and moral issues, and they don't think biblically on these matters.
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All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
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Recognition by one's peers is the goal of every scientist.
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There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!
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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'
