"God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel……" — Elisabeth Elliot
"God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant."
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182 Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot has 182 quotes on this site.
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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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My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.…
— Al Alvarez
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What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow,…
— Clay Shirky
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The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They…
— Benito Mussolini
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Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the…
— Norman Cousins
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On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of…
— Benito Mussolini
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Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a…
— Wendell Berry
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After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says,…
— Will Schwalbe
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There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral…
— Oriana Fallaci
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of…
— W. S. Gilbert
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other…
— Immanuel Kant
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