Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

Elisabeth Elliot

• God
• I Love
• Obedience
• Contradicts

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• Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

  

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• You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

  

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• We have not made these choices lightly, Our decision was made in the full seriousness and clear knowledge of what is at stake.

  

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• My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

  

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• When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • I Love
  • Obedience