Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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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.
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I'd rather lose all my stuff than lose myself, because I've done that before, and that feels way worse.
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One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.
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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.
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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.
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One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
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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.
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Everybody loves things that sparkle.
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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.
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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.
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We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
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My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
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My main goal is to tell a story.
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Learn today, lead tomorrow!
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The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.
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We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.
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The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
