Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

Elisabeth Elliot

• Needs
• Praying
• Satisfaction
• Produce
• The Lord
• Refreshment

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• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Positive
  • Thoughts
  • Attitude

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Constitution
  • Him
  • Sexuality

• God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Heart
  • Power

• The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Choice
  • Word

• Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Humility

• The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Faith
  • Humanity
  • Library

• Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Painting

• The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Life
  • God
  • Lie

• Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

  

  Abraham Michael Rosenthal
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Those who believe they can't repel the positive; they use the negative side of their talisman. Those who believe they can repel the negative; they use the positive side.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Use

• The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

  

  Saint Augustine

• In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Heart
  • Party
  • Morning

• If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Want
  • Next
  • Debate

• A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Never
  • Gentleman

• Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • School
  • Bad
  • Middle

• Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Pearls
  • String
  • Sweatshirt

• When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • Scripts
  • Shooting
  • Odd

• Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.

  

  Ezekiel Hopkins
  • God
  • Beat
  • Smiles

• Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.

  

  James Carville
  • Friends
  • Winning

• Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Needs
  • Praying
  • Satisfaction