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God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him
JIM ELLIOT He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.
JIM ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona...
ELISABETH ELLIOT When rain falls down, God doesn’t expect gratitude; God appreciates who gives gratitude to him for...
BIBLE No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which...
PHILLIPS BROOKS While I am sorry to see Mitch leave and we will certainly miss him, he has made a difficult but wise...
BOBBY LUTZ Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoev...
MOTHER TERESA God gives all to those, who get up early.
ANNA KOURNIKOVA And Allah's are the best names, therefore call on Him thereby, and leave alone those who violate the...
QURAN He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. FORBES He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
PLATO God always strives together with those who strive.
AESCHYLUS Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to
whom God gives with a sparing hand w...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Elliot: He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship.
Greg: Well, can't he...
E.T. The Best quote that inspires me every time is that God gives his hardest battles to his strongest so...
ROSARYMAN God gives us His spirit , while we give Him our bodies by fully submitting to Him and doing His will
SUNDAY ADELAJA God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH God wants to show the difference between those who serve Him and those who do not serve Him
SUNDAY ADELAJA Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all...
NIKITA IVANOVICH PANIN Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all h...
NIKITA IVANOVICH PANIN Those who walk with God sees and behold his promises
SUNDAY ADELAJA God gives power to the weak, and increases the strength of those who have no might
SUNDAY ADELAJA God gives us enemies so we will appreciate those who love us.
JIM GENOVESE He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; w...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN God always gives riches to diligent people who persistently aim for the goal and who continue to be ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet whe...
CHANAKYA For we can now understand why it was that a man true to his conscience, in circumstances of such con...
GORDON BROWN God helps those who fear Him.
ABU BAKR For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLE God blesses him who helps his brother.
ABU BAKR God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.
ELLEN FRANKFORT God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especi...
SAINT AMBROSE The devil takes his victories,” the man replied, “wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should al...
CHARLES C. COLSON He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.
ANN MILLER Those who fear the Lord do their best to please Him
BIBLE God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth befor...
CRISS JAMI He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; w...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God.
SUZY KASSEM In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and ...
THOMAS MERTON Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to ...
JOYCE MEYER He who knows how to beg can always leave his money at home.
VIKRANT PARSAI Romans 8: 28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart beca...
BLAISE PASCAL I said I wouldn't leave his body. They said to leave his ID on him and leave him. They could only sa...
BARBARA PRATT A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON An ignorant is the one who hurts you when you accompany him and insults you when you leave him. He w...
ZEESHAN NAJAFI Jim Wright was one of the best proponents of geography poetry. America is always about neighborhood....
MICHAEL HARPER Keep your head up and heart strong. Remember -those who walk with God are always Victorious …
LATIKA TEOTIA Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preach...
NIKOLAI GOGOL Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equ...
JIM ELLIOT Any race I put him in he gives me 110%. There's not a race that Jim gave away this year.
DAVE NORTON Jim is a likable guy. He is a man of compassion. He is not a pushy fellow. Jim is trying his best to...
BILL SUTTON Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and powe...
ERIC BERNE There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not fou...
BLAISE PASCAL When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of th...
ORIGEN The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the peopl...
CRISS JAMI A person who keeps always his profile down-to-earth doesn't have to worry with those who surround or...
ANUJ SOMANY And when Our clear communications are recited to them, those who disbelieve say to those who believe...
QURAN In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must...
JERRY BRIDGES If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
MARCUS AURELIUS Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones ...
DAVID WONG He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost alway...
STEPHEN KING Keep striving, for God gives His hardest battles to His strongest soldiers.
HABEEB AKANDE It fits in with the values of his core constituency. It offers an opportunity for those people who h...
LARRY GERSTON The wise man knows that not all those who sit in his camp are with him and not all those who sit in ...
DR HITESH C SHETH To love someone is– to be with him in his rough times; be the panacea for his life, and lead him t...
RITU CHOWDHARY Those who want to leave will be assisted with hotel and air arrangements,
BOB DICKINSON His memory is always with us, and we use it in the best way we know how. We're never going to let hi...
ERIK DAVIS God is with those who persevere.
KORAN God is with those who persevere
QURAN I fear the worst and hope for the best. His glasses were at the house boat. His cellphone was there....
CHARLES COX I questioned his timing. I accused him of retaliation for voting against Jim Kelly.
LARRY URDAHL If god brings you to a obsticale he will lead you through it. God will never leave his child to a ob...
JENNIFER GALLO Have you then seen him who turns his back? / And gives a little and (then) withholds.
QURAN People who honor God will always rejoice in His presence
SUNDAY ADELAJA Bless God who gives you life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Jim Sullivan killed his wife. The state is going to prove it. We ask that you find him guilty.
SHEILA ROSS That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most
knowledge, and takes from him the least ti...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Don't you leave him! they said to me. Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The purpose of life is simple. We are only here to make a choice to forever live with God, or foreve...
DANIEL RAY WARING JR. We have confident; God gives only what pleases Him.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tw...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA If there are two options, smiling is always the best choice.
CHLOE THURLOW The best wins or losses in life are those that leave you with a newer vision onto life.
SAMEH ELSAYED The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK Loneliness and fear ate at him, a loner by choice who had prided himself on his daring and courage. ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its powe...
RUSSELL M. NELSON God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.
GEORGE HERBERT God gives, but man must open his hand.
GERMAN PROVERB God wanted to redeem men and open the way of salvation to those who seek Him. But men make themselve...
BLAISE PASCAL Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I was obsessed with him. I wouldn't leave his side for a second.
DREW BARRYMORE God plants our spiritual giftings deep, so it will take years to claim them, but that gives Him time...
ALISA HOPE WAGNER The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least t...
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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