Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Good
  • Alone

• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Self

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Help

• I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Parent

• Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Mirror

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • Work
  • Important
  • Fashion

• I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • More
  • Planet

• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Tradition
  • View
  • Islam

• Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Should
  • Popular

• Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• 'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Heart

• And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • Earth
  • Lost
  • Die

• Fair stands the ancient Rectory, The Rectory of Croft, The sun shines bright upon it, The breezes whisper soft. From all the house and garden Its inhabitants come forth, And muster in the road without, And pace in twos and threes about, The children of the North.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • House
  • Road

• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Faith
  • My Life

• Scripture says, 'He didn't know the Lord, didn't respect the Lord, but the Lord used him to advance his kingdom.' I just believe that at this point in history, Trump will defend religious faith. I talk to him about that.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Believe
  • History
  • Faith

• It's hard to learn a new guy each time out there.

  

  Jason Hammel
  • Time
  • Guy

• I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated.

  

  Lemon Andersen
  • Heart
  • She
  • Girl

• There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Art
  • Green

• Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Faith
  • Darkness
  • Reasons