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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I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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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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For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
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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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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
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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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I want to be a purpose-driven, purpose-led organization, and I want the organization to achieve this aspiration of being the undisputed leader in professional services.
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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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A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
