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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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.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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If I had to pick a favorite album, 'El Malo' would be one of them. That music is good old-fashioned medicine.
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Many things inspire me. First and foremost, my family, my husband, and our son. I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
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That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate
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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.
