Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Those who go along get along.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
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Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
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I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!
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Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
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What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
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Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
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In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.
