Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.


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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 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
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