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Him Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
- You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to…
- The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy.…
- What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, “let me not be…
- We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to…
- 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,…
- The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to very big things…
- It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a…
- Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
- I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give…
- The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action.…
- I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me.…
- This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I…
- God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is…
- One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today.…
- Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully…
- 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…
- When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
- God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well…
- It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my…
- If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is…
- Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden