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It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.


Elisabeth Shue

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ELISABETH EAVES I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT 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 [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 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 Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevi...
ELISABETH ELLIOT When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Hi...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you h...
ELISABETH ELLIOT But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justi...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less,...
ELISABETH ELLIOT If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril i...
ELISABETH ELLIOT One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when a...
ELISABETH ELLIOT There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
ELISABETH ELLIOT Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
ELISABETH ELLIOT The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will no...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logic...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appe...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward...
ELISABETH ELLIOT I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t...
ELISABETH ELLIOT If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mom...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lif...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
ELISABETH ELLIOT What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may...
ELISABETH ELLIOT I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I d...
ELISABETH ELLIOT