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Said Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
- Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We…
- All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
- We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable…
- 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 world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for…
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