Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
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Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.
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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
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She can kill with a smile, She can wound with her eyes.
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I'm only a poor corrupt official.
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I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.
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Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.
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I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
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I told the guys it was like getting a monkey, and then I said a gorilla off our back.
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The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
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One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.
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I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.
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The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
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I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.
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It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
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A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
