Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.
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I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
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We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.
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It's important to push yourself to get better at your craft - whatever that is. It's important to grow and evolve with each project.
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When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.
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Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
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A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
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'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.
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The Lamb is, indeed, the emblem of love; but what so terrible as the wrath of the Lamb? The depth of the mercy despised is the measure of the punishment of him that despiseth. No more fearful words than those of the Saviour. The threat- enings of the law were temporal, those of the gospel are eternal. It is Christ who reveals the never-dying worm, the unquenchable fire, and He who contrasts with the eternal joys of the redeemed the everlasting woes of the lost. His loving arms would enfold the whole human race, but not while impenitent or unbelieving; the benefits of His redemption are conditional.
