Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • May
  • Change
  • Better

• Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Success
  • Best
  • Consequences

• I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Children
  • Past
  • Worry

• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Rest
  • Ourselves
  • Feminine

• ... all of us talk faster than we listen.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Faster

• I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Funny
  • Model
  • Situation

• Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Lord
  • Pray
  • Appointment

• The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Air

• India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Nice
  • Talent
  • India

• There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • God
  • Study
  • Error

• In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Learning
  • Promotion
  • Scheme

• We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hope
  • Growth
  • Lifetime

• The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Life
  • Way
  • Surrender

• I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Sweet
  • Company
  • Stand

• Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Freedom
  • Question
  • Problem

• I thought this was the first game all year we deserved to win and didn't.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Deserved
  • First Game

• One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Lifetime
  • Surrender
  • Lifelong