Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

Elisabeth Elliot

• Convinced
• Human Heart
• Virginity
• Monotony
• Hungers

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• I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • King
  • Hamlet

• An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.

  

  Dale Robertson
  • Change
  • Personality
  • Actor

• If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Man
  • Path

• It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Hate

• In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Money
  • Done
  • May

• Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Business
  • Attention
  • Hand

• It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Age
  • Play
  • Impossible

• I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Life
  • Whole

• This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Please
  • Wit
  • Fellows

• A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

  

  Lord Byron

• What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Marriage
  • Choice
  • Hear

• To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

  

  William Gibson
  • Guy
  • Political
  • Consciousness

• It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Human Beings
  • Burden

• I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Way
  • Should
  • Delighted

• We are apathetic and indifferent towards our sins, and we are usually not disturbed by them at all. We are more likely to weep over what is done to us, or over difficult leadings. We weep over our sorrows, troubles and disappointments. Each one of us does so, for this is our human nature. But not everyone comes to the point of true contrition and repentance and weeps over his sins. Such reactions are foreign to human nature. The human heart has a way of thinking that it is always in the right and has no need to weep over its sins. By nature, we are self-confident and impenitent. We blame others or even accuse God when we do not understand His ways.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • God
  • Blame
  • Human Nature

• We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Earth

• I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Life
  • Write
  • Romance

• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Convinced
  • Human Heart
  • Virginity