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Christ Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
- Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on…
- This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him,…
- My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive…
- Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
- Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of…
- Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your…
- Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called…
- If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we…
- Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
- The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
- One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the…
- You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.
- Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to…
- If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding,…
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- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors,… — Teresa of Avila
- You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar. — Sebastian Bach
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — William Barclay
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth
- Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought… — Bruce Barton