It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.


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The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
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 are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to who...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and materna...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefor...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
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
'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
Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. ...
ELISABETH 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
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
This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
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
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
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
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