Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
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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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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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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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As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.
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It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.
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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.
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The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
