Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
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a man of contention to the whole ... BIBLE I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of ... ANNE BRONTë No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be u... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. We cannot do everything, but we can all do something. DILLON BURROUGHS Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others. APURVA GAGLANI The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better. ROBERT F. KENNEDY I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. WILLIAM HURT My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can... ED KOCH Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little... SOURCE UNKNOWN A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man. SAM WALTER FOSS You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a diffe... BOB CORKER You said I could not make it, you tried to stop me, you tried to bring your fears on me. But, now yo... KISHAN S CHAUHAN He (Thomas) started to make a move on me into one, he had such a good run I actually had to close th... BILL AUBERLEN Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life i... AESCHYLUS For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous! FAKE CINNA I told our coaches in the huddle to put me on him and I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. There ... DAVE HUGHES Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS For me, life is a bowl of cherries. SISSY SPACEK I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on... BUZZ OSBORNE I'm definitely one of those chicks who want to be in a relationship. I need somebody who can mak... ALY MICHALKA People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I could make a difference. CHRIS BURKE A life without problems is a life less likely to be. VANCE B.. CHAN Life is a single lane, one way road, try to make a U turn and you will get into an accident. NORAIN Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that com... BILLIE JEAN KING I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take ... MOUNI ROY Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guar... JAMES ALTUCHER Thousands of reason are too less to make me sad but a single reason is enough to make me smile. RAAZ OJHA Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. L... BETTY SMITH Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; le... BETTY SMITH Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. L... BETTY SMITH (WRITER) I want him to think of me in those situations, because it's a mismatch for me to be out there on DBs... JERRAMY STEVENS At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a sing... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE It's definitely been a challenging first 10 days under coach Karl, ... He's really tough on me, and ... JULIUS HODGE To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I've had people swing at me, ... I've had people faint on me. I had one man, he just kept pushing me... WALTER JOHNSON I was even starting to relax—a little—until he took me to his parents' house for dinner. I've ne... GENA SHOWALTER Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh. DANE COOK My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people... HAMILTON JORDAN I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his. ELSA PERETTI Power is the element of trust by one or many, allowing one to make a decision. Trust is the element ... RICHARD JEONG The things that have happened for me, to me, have helped me grow up. Especially the passing of my fa... SCOTTIE PIPPEN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you h... MALCOLM X I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me s... JULIE GARWOOD Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. CATHERINE OF SIENA I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever... JIMMY CARTER I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have noth... VON MILLER The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rati... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. DEYTH BANGER Let me tell you what happened to me. Not only did I lose a contact lens before the concert, with no ... YEVGENY SUDBIN I refuse to let it make me paranoid but it's given me a fear of the cold. JENNI FALCONER Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. COLIN FIRTH When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week. SANDRA BULLOCK When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it... CHRISTINA AGUILERA Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR.
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ELISABETH ELLIOT George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p... ELISABETH ELLIOT I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t... ELISABETH ELLIOT The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled... ELISABETH ELLIOT The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-... ELISABETH ELLIOT When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual d... ELISABETH ELLIOT Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace i... ELISABETH ELLIOT If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to... ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t... ELISABETH ELLIOT Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie... ELISABETH ELLIOT I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot... AUSTIN ELLIOT There's no way he's supposed to even catch the ball, dribble it, spin and shoot a shot and make a sh... ELLIOT WASHINGTON This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What... JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ... JANE ELLIOT I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole... TUCKER ELLIOT I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ... ELISABETH ELLIOT [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu... ELISABETH ELLIOT Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are... JANE ELLIOT Age is how we determine how valuable you are. JANE ELLIOT I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Au... JANE ELLIOT I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vici... JANE ELLIOT We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put i... JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ... JANE ELLIOT My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode. JANE ELLIOT "The most meanest and depraved of men come out on top, and women flock to these men.Their evil acts ... ELLIOT RODGER Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age ELLIOT PAUL It's not just one crop in one region. It's multiple crops in most of the state that have been affect... DAVE ELLIOT It was like hitting a brick wall. We're still unsure of what to do. ELLIOT SECRIST We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of whit... JANE ELLIOT The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation WALTER ELLIOT