Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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I never starved myself.
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Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
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I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.
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'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
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We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)
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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
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I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.
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But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.
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At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.
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Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me.
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But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.
