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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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 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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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 capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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I believe in less government interference in people's personal lives, including whom to marry, when and whether to bear a child and how to raise kind and compassionate children.
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We've got to start making people uncomfortable in themselves and not being comfortable being racist or homophobic or any of that. We've got to cut that out from the inside.
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It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.
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During my nightmarish time in a coma, 11 days long, you kept appearing in my dreams, wild, you and Slava, like gypsies & always too late. You were a two-man orchestra & we were always looking for you and waiting for you.
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God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled...
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I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.
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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.
