"My most earnest of all pleas to singles……" — Elisabeth Elliot
"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 whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free."
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Elisabeth Elliot
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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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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of…
— Julian Huxley
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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every…
— Lloyd deMause
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist…
— Francis of Assisi
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing…
— R. D. Laing
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and…
— Sigmund Freud
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the…
— Patrick Henry
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