Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • American
  • America
  • High

• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Life
  • Wise

• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Magic

• The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

  

  Kara Walker
  • World
  • Real
  • Space

• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Television

• I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Education

• If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Team

• I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • People
  • Woman
  • Red

• It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Great
  • Age
  • Doing

• However obvious these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and things symbolized are independent of each other; nevertheless, we all have a way of feeling as if

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • May
  • Feeling
  • Independent

• A fox and a wolf are both canine, both belong to the dog family. Now you take your choice. You going to choose a Northern dog or a Southern dog? Because either dog you choose, I guarantee you’ll still be in the dog house. This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Family
  • Why
  • House

• Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Religious

• 'My darling one....I shall be thinking of you while you are away and hope you will remember to wrap up warm when you go out at night.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • People
  • Power
  • Help

• The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

  

  Frank Shorter
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Management

• For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

  

  Edwin Way Teale
  • Mind
  • Nature

• People want to be empowered to the point where they can thwart their enemies physically.

  

  David Leitch
  • People

• God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo
  • God
  • Children
  • Job

• Four are the highest in creation: the lion among the beasts, the ox among cattle, the eagle among the fowls, and man above these; but God is the highest of all.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • God
  • Lion
  • Highest

• Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

  

  Beth Henley
  • School
  • She
  • High

• One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

  

  William Shatner
  • Advice
  • Able
  • Advantage

• We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Suffering
  • Sin