"Either we are adrift in chaos or we……" — Elisabeth Elliot
"Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?"
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182 Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then…
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Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on…
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Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things…
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If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls…
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In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help…
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Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in…
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She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of…
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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given.…
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The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
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All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God…
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Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.
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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you…
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More Adrift Quotes
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Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a…
— Toni Morrison
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[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing…
— Ronald Reagan
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Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
— Jon Voight
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Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege…
— Louis Theroux
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and…
— Dorothy Day
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile…
— Russell Kirk
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A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could…
— Fredrik Bajer
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Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More…
— Brian D. McLaren
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True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their…
— Rick Bayan
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With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.
— Deepak Chopra
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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