Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

Elisabeth Elliot

• Life
• God
• Faith
• Responsible

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Past
  • Islam
  • Percent

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Time
  • Like
  • Bars

• I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Together
  • Cooking
  • Consistency

• We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Words

• Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Man
  • Pleasures
  • Depend

• I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Determination

• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mistake

• I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Long
  • Know
  • Peace

• I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Character
  • Think
  • Dream

• You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Want
  • Day
  • Special

• 'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Success
  • Understanding
  • Failure

• You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Music
  • Long

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Water
  • Myself

• 2. That, from where all the activities of the embodied beings emerge, is mentioned as the heart. The description of its form is conceptual.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Heart

• In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of authority and voice. I might feel I would like to change something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Up

• I've spent a long time learning my way around a stage as an actor, but this I don't know as well. Humbly, I'm excited to get with a band and perform regularly as an artist and see what I can learn and how I can grow in that space.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Time
  • Long
  • Space

• The 'Friday sessions' refer to something that you're not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird - even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries.

  

  Andre Geim
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Weird

• While a person dies every day during the eight or more hours in which he or she functions as a commodity, individuals come to life afterward in their spiritual creations. But this remedy bears the germs of the same sickness: that of a solitary being seeking harmony with the world.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Life
  • World
  • She

• Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Movie
  • Television
  • Three

• The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Life
  • God
  • Faith