Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
Quotes to Explore
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
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It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.
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The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.
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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
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The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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By 2030, up to 10 percent of the world's gross domestic product could be linked to space in some way.
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Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.
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Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
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You are in constant danger of being destroyed.
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No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
