Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.
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Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
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To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
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When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.When the angry breakers roarAs they beat on the rocky shore;-When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heightsOf the Hills of the Chankly Bore
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It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.
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The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night.
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We're free and clear, Willy. We're free, we're free, we're free...
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Admiration, is a joy daily kindled afresh... I talk out of the -fullness of life; it belongs to me in a sense larger than that of ownership.
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Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.
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I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family.
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Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
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You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.
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I use very few muscles at the best of times.
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Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
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If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.
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The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
