Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!
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JIM ELLIOT It is impossible to establish the kingdom of love on earth without knowing the fullness of love.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.
ILONA ANDREWS Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.
JIM ELLIOT It's sheer pleasure to watch this thing.
SHARON STONE To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to b...
ADAM CLARKE God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his ...
KYLE IDLEMAN Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.
T.C. BOYLE He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona...
ELISABETH ELLIOT (Matty) 'I'm going to a corn maze.'
(Elliot) 'Oh, bitch. You've lost your ever-loving mind.
LETA BLAKE As a gathering place for the community, it is a pleasure to join in the excitement of this event. We...
DOUG STEWART If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the st...
MATTHEW HENRY Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, wh...
JOSEPH KALLINGER Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothi...
MARTIN LUTHER There was a lot of excitement when Jim started up at Haro. I think he wants to have that again.
JOE HAWK God gave us life on this earth so that we would fulfill His commission to establish the kingdom of G...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled cr...
JOSEPH CONRAD There is the fullness of our love, where
God is knowable, whether willful or involuntary.
MARIETA MAGLAS- ESCHATOLOGICAL REGRESSION May God grant your a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The one principle of hell is – “I am my own
GEORGE MACDONALD Good deeds allied to the pleasure of God are sure to cultivate kindness and wisdom.
MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH JAVED She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing…
"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty." ILONA ANDREWS Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The children of God are His instruments on the earth
SUNDAY ADELAJA 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 He tried to make it seem that he had stopped for some dirty talk and to savor the moment, but Anne k...
ELLIOT MABEUSE Your never to old to grow young.
JIM GENOVESE Oh man, the Vengaboys are my guilty pleasure.
KIESZA An ordinary person is one whose life is driven by the mere motivation of making money and sees it as...
ANUJ SOMANY Kidnapping is a national past time to these Scots and they do it for the sheer pleasure of making ea...
CLAIRE ROBYNS Sex is a pleasure related with sedative excitement while love is a cosmic healing.
RAMESH KAVDIA(RAMESH BABA) Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
ALEX IZYKOWSKI A New Year is like a new day; with fullness of sacred grace to fulfill the God-given dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings and whi...
JOHN GILLISPIE MAGEE, JR. Just because you don't want to see something doesn't mean that it will go away. Do you think inhuman...
BETHANY GRIFFIN The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc...
LEWIS MUMFORD The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc...
LEWIS MUMFORD Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt mys...
JACQUES CHARLES May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.
HARLEY KING It is not only the ratio of pleasure to pain that determines the quality of a life, but also the she...
DAVID BENATAR The word of God is complete, and those who don't preach the word in its fullness are false teach...
MONICA JOHNSON The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
L.M. MONTGOMERY Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness ...
CHARLES DUHIGG Do you think this is in the back of the Republicans' minds now that it happened to Jim Wright, 'Oh o...
LESLEY STAHL For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into a...
NORMAN O. BROWN The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a d...
LEWIS MUMFORD Oh Angus,” she moaned. “Can’t you just use your…you know…your powers to clean this up?” ...
ELLIOT MABEUSE There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS The dimension of our influence on earth depends on the dimensions of how big we are before God
SUNDAY ADELAJA Only in truthfulness can one recieve from he who consist in the fullness of truth
CHRIS VALDES God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don...
ELLIOT MABEUSE God placed us on the earth as kings and priests
SUNDAY ADELAJA Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!
MANUEL MARIA BARBOSA DU BOCAGE Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If we read the Holy Scripture, we shall grow in our knowledge of Jesus Christ, the Saviour. And be f...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of get...
SYLVIA ASHTON-WARNER Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
O. J. SIMPSON It's unbelievable. Oh, my God! I'm in complete shock. Oh, my God!
COURTNEY WHIDDEN Everything living on earth is created by God within the frames of time and space
SUNDAY ADELAJA This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Plea...
JOHN GREEN Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green
And was the holy la...
WILLIAM BLAKE ...worst of all were the highly unlikely science-fiction novels, or the equally implausible futurist...
JOHN IRVING We are pouring huge amounts of energy into the biological effort to understand where life came from,...
MICHAEL BROOKS Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
LEWIS MUMFORD But at this point an objection is frequently raised.
The "otherworldliness" of Christianity is...
J. GRESHAM MACHEN The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
MARTIN LUTHER God created heaven on earth but man created hell.
SANTOSH KALWAR You are placed on this earth to represent God.
JIM GEORGE God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.
FRANCIS W. NEWMAN Oh, we were stressed going into training camp, not knowing what's going on, being cautious on the fl...
JASON RICHARDSON Many people describe it as harsh. It is isolated. Water is not common. It's a place where the sheer ...
MARIETTA EATON I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
ED BRADLEY Your capacity to experience the fullness of life is directly proportionate to your capacity to exper...
STEVE MARABOLI Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly ...
RANDY ALCORN May the Spirit of God empower you with divine strength to accomplish your mission on earth.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA God himself and Jesus relied upon light to function on the earth
SUNDAY ADELAJA Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with w...
RAINER MARIA RILKE If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
YIDDISH PROVERB If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
JEWISH PROVERB For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abo...
HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL Oh my God. Oh my God, J.P. is in love with me. And we blew up the school.
MEG CABOT And as she looked at the pool she saw the waters gather up into a column, rushing up foaming and sta...
ELLIOT MABEUSE Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come...
ROBERT FROST And Elliot Easton of The Cars (who plays a guitar solo on the album) we're all huge Cars fans, and w...
BEN ROMANS And Elliot Easton of The Cars (who plays a guitar solo on the album) we're all huge Cars fans, an...
BEN ROMANS Oh no. ... He said that? Oh, my God.
GLADYS BETTIS Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as grea...
C.S. LEWIS Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That�...
RICK RIORDAN God wants to accomplish the calling of winners, he wants us to establish His victory on earth
SUNDAY ADELAJA God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much lov...
AMIT RAY The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...
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JIM ELLIOT Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usu...
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JIM ELLIOT Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
JIM ELLIOT Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
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BERN ELLIOT This is the new dial tone. The basic customer-service model today is broken; for most customers, it'...
BERN ELLIOT We believe [speech] is ready for successful deployment and offering clear, tangible benefits today.
BERN ELLIOT Because of its strong relationship with some of the carriers, as well as a relationship with Microso...
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ELLIOT RICHARDSON I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. N...
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JANE ELLIOT The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line...
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CASS ELLIOT If you really think you're right, you should tell it.
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CASS ELLIOT Honesty is all you need.
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CASS ELLIOT It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent ...
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ELISABETH ELLIOT The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how cl...
ELLIOT PERLMAN Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has vi...
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ELISABETH ELLIOT She doesn't wish to have anything to do with this man.
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ELLIOT MINTZ It would be in the category of weeks as opposed to months.
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GRAHAM ELLIOT I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your ad...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefor...
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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 The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.
BEN ELLIOT 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 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...
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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...
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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 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 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 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 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