I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help.


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I try to block this stuff out a little bit 'cause it's the only way to kind of live.
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This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefor...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Oh Angus,” she moaned. “Can’t you just use your…you know…your powers to clean this up?” ...
ELLIOT MABEUSE
When a wisp of fog blew by her she laughed and reached out her hands to it. When the wind blew she t...
ELLIOT MABEUSE
And as she looked at the pool she saw the waters gather up into a column, rushing up foaming and sta...
ELLIOT MABEUSE
He tried to make it seem that he had stopped for some dirty talk and to savor the moment, but Anne k...
ELLIOT MABEUSE
Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a d...
ELLIOT COWAN
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are alway...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate ...
JIM ELLIOT
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spiri...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to un...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw...
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
Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
JIM 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
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
JIM ELLIOT
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