Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• I exist as I am, that is enough.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Enough
  • Exist

• You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.

  

  Eminem
  • Baby
  • Bird

• I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Why
  • Movie

• I'd rather lose all my stuff than lose myself, because I've done that before, and that feels way worse.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Done

• One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.

  

  Carlos Beruff

• Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Why

• I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.

  

  Lee Whitnum
  • Real
  • High

• One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

  

  Martin Fleischmann

• I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can.

  

  Franka Potente
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Everybody loves things that sparkle.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • Sparkle

• The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.

  

  John Shelton Reed
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.

  

  John Waters
  • Important
  • Movie

• We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Society
  • Freedom

• My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Brother
  • Missing
  • Gone

• Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Passions
  • Virtues
  • Powers

• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Humility

• I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Up
  • Home
  • Job

• I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you can’t, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God’s help you can command your will when you can’t command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn’t appear to agree with us.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Feelings
  • Love Is
  • Obedience

• The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Bible
  • Satisfaction
  • Obedience