"We must quit bending the Word to suit……" — Elisabeth Elliot
"We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke."
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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 Bending Quotes
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
— Aesop
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I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out…
— Sandra Bullock
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The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the…
— William Jenkyn
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems…
— Auguste Rodin
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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief…
— Sarah Fielding
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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is…
— Joanna Lumley
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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
— Sun Tzu
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We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.
— Rahm Emanuel
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Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one…
— David Anthony Durham
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Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy…
— Norman Grubb
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion…
— Nadine Gordimer
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Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence…
— Wallace Stevens
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