Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.

Elisabeth Elliot

• God
• Job
• Gift
• Privilege
• Faithfulness

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• The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Long
  • War
  • Change

• It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Always

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• 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

• My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Food

• I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Small
  • Imagination

• When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Strong

• Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Career
  • Team
  • Responsibility

• I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Kind
  • Forever

• Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Want
  • Kid
  • Talk

• My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Intention

• Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Important
  • School
  • Career

• At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Help
  • Process
  • Software

• Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Well

• There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Live
  • Job
  • Night

• If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.

  

  David Dreman
  • Money
  • Years
  • Three

• I certainly had my God-can-you-just-take-me-now-I've-just-had-it-I'm-checking-out-let-me-off-the-train-I'm-done kind of thing. But, you know, I would never actually do it. I just can't imagine what it would take to do that.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • God
  • Done

• The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul

  

  Chrysippus
  • God
  • Soul
  • Universe

• I pledge allegiance to the frog of the United States of America and to the wee public for witches hands one Asian, under God, in the vestibule with little tea and just rice for all.

  

  Bette Lord
  • God
  • Public
  • Rice

• Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.

  

  Steve Chen
  • Friends
  • Food
  • Conversation

• This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Job
  • Gift