Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
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Wherever I find love I will accept it.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.
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I made the miscalculation of taking Mr. Rubio at his word that he wouldn't seek re-election if he lost the presidential primary.
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Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
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children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
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She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.
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I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
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A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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Animated program was definitely a different process but it was fun though, it had elements of doing my podcast where we were all in a booth with microphones joking around and stuff. It was definitely a fun process.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
