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Woman Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
- A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a matter of attitude.…
- In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
- 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…
- I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
- Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being…
- The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes…
- We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give…
- A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing…
- The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom,…
- 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…
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