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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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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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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I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.
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I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it's also about transforming physically, so it's kind of a fantastical genre.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.
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You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.
