I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.


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When life gives you boredom, give it your insanity.
NOELLE ELISABETH
I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting char...
ELISABETH MOSS
It leaves the underlying momentum strong.
ELISABETH DENISON
'We didn't have enough money, or horses of our own I would take an old saddle and put it on a swing ...
ELISABETH SHUE
I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.
ELISABETH SHUE
I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like H...
ELISABETH MOSS
Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own ...
ELISABETH EAVES
We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up un...
ELISABETH EAVES
Yeah, it was so good. I was so-o-o mean to her before [in Hide and Seek ]. Man, I felt bad because I...
ELISABETH SHUE
She reminds you of the joyfulness that you felt when you first started and reminds you to never let ...
ELISABETH SHUE
She has a wisdom beyond her years. But what I love about her most is that she is a girl. Her playful...
ELISABETH SHUE
After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's ...
ELISABETH SHUE
Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, o...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yo...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can h...
ELISABETH SHUE
He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to...
ELISABETH SUSSMAN
He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to...
ELISABETH SUSSMAN
Part of the challenge in this country is encouraging people to save enough for retirement, but an eq...
ELISABETH GEHL
Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mom...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK
Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in ...
ELISABETH SHUE
I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have....
ELISABETH SHUE
I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.
ELISABETH SHUE
She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is...
ELISABETH SHUE
Writing? Pshhh, this is art.
NOELLE ELISABETH
The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much
ELISABETH FOLEY
Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have e...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK
You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally rea...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the m...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’v...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stre...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not the...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this lis...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely und...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other peop...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experien...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
You haunt my days and dreams.
JENNIFER ELISABETH
If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.
JENNIFER ELISABETH
The Fall will always be yours and mine…
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinnin...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportuniti...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes alm...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenti...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to cha...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, ca...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and w...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desi...
ELISABETH SHUE
I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimula...
ELISABETH SHUE
Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, ...
ELISABETH LENK