The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.


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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
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
We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevi...
ELISABETH ELLIOT