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Life Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
- It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes…
- For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer…
- One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two…
- Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
- 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…
- 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…
- A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the…
- 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…
- 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…
- I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around,"…
- 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.…
- One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
- I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
- 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…
- The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son…
- To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and…
- If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand…
- The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is…
- The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set…
- We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given…
- Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
- The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though…
- George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North…
- The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
- The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle