Oh Angus,” she moaned. “Can’t you just use your…you know…your powers to clean this up?” Angus was walking to the kitchen, wiping his face with a napkin. He laughed. “Wouldn’t that be nice?” he asked. “‘Mess: Clean yourself up!’ ‘Floor, sweep yourself and be quick about it! Anne Commands!’ No, Darling, I’m afraid it doesn’t work like that! Not like that at all!
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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 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 sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word fr... JIM ELLIOT You're moving muscles and improving circulation in areas you can't when you're in a wheelchair on la... JIM 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 I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to cru... JIM ELLIOT We are eager to use the occultation technique to probe for atmospheres around large Kuiper belt obje... JIM ELLIOT 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 Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call or whatever you want to call i... JIM ELLIOT Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in ... ELLIOT CARTER Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all small
stuff. ROBERT ELLIOT Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s... ELISABETH ELLIOT