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.

Elisabeth Elliot

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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.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Diet
  • Fish

• 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.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• 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'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Song
  • Care
  • Take Care

• 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.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Career
  • Flower

• The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Slavery
  • Constitution

• 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.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • God
  • Country
  • Mind

• '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

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe
  • America
  • Simple

• I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World

• 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.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • She

• 'But of course, you don’t believe in the existence of sin, do you?''I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,' Rashmika replied.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Believe

• So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Family
  • Together
  • Night

• I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.

  

  Katherine Kelly

• If you are elected to do a job, you are supposed to do it to the best of your ability.

  

  Patty Judge
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Margo Lanagan
  • Imagination

• No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

  

  Charles Simmons

• Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Energy
  • Concentrated
  • Acorn

• All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma.

  

  Mary Beard
  • God
  • History

• My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Boyfriend

• Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

  

  Georg Henrik von Wright
  • People
  • Society
  • Taken

• It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce

• 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.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Travel
  • Journey