Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.
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'The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'' 4
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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'But of course, you don’t believe in the existence of sin, do you?''I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,' Rashmika replied.
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So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.
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I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.
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If you are elected to do a job, you are supposed to do it to the best of your ability.
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It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
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No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
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And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to preserve our own interests at the expense of God's interests. It's devious, it's deceitful, it's self-indulgent. It's interested only in selfish comfort and will happily crucify Christ afresh to secure it. God also has another name for it- sin.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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If you have fun doing something, you also take it seriously.
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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
