Elisabeth Elliot quote: "The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown," the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale . . ."

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in nee...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

There is no ongoing spiritual life without this process of letting go. At the precise point where we...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd,...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lif...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but wha...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Jesus never pussyfooted
ELISABETH ELLIOT

A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the w...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of conta...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to th...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pr...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who ar...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

There is no such thing as Christian work. That is, there is no work in the world which is, in and of...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the imag...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

He who had known the ceaseless worship of angels came to be a slave to men. Preaching, teaching, hea...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's con...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His k...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addresse...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel th...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sove...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and canno...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line y...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and god...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will go...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
ELISABETH ELLIOT

I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you rec...
ELISABETH FOLEY

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insa...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, l...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.
ELISABETH SHUE

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush t...
ELISABETH BISHOP

Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watch...
ELISABETH BISHOP

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that t...
ELISABETH BISHOP

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened ...
ELISABETH MOSS

I love Central Park. I feel like I am somewhere else.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK

Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able ...
ELISABETH SHUE

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You h...
ELISABETH ROHM

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities ever...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK

I do splurge on diaper bags. I have a half dozen in different colors and styles.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK

Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.
ELISABETH ROHM

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave...
ELISABETH ROHM

I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager bea...
ELISABETH ROHM

You and a select few of your ancestors, including your mother, are special protectors of your realm,...
ELLIE ELISABETH

If ever I was running, it was towards you.
JENNIFER ELISABETH

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and nee...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

She blushed and smiled nonstop for 20 minutes.
ELISABETH AGRO

It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its own?...
ELISABETH AGRO

This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thin...
ELISABETH AGRO

I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought abo...
ELISABETH AGRO

There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're pl...
ELISABETH AGRO

I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about...
ELISABETH AGRO

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way...
ELISABETH FOLEY

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apar...
ELISABETH FOLEY

I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that...
ELISABETH SHUE

Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its binding love. We stand...
ELISABETH FOLEY

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other every...
ELISABETH FOLEY

True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even ...
ELISABETH FOLEY

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 didn't have enough money, or horses of our own I would take an old saddle and put it on a swing ...
ELISABETH SHUE

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

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

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

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

The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mom...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK

Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in ...
ELISABETH SHUE

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have....
ELISABETH SHUE

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.
ELISABETH SHUE

She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is...
ELISABETH SHUE

Writing? Pshhh, this is art.
NOELLE ELISABETH

The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much
ELISABETH FOLEY

Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have e...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK

You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally rea...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the m...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’v...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stre...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not the...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this lis...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely und...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other peop...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experien...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

You haunt my days and dreams.
JENNIFER ELISABETH

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.
JENNIFER ELISABETH

The Fall will always be yours and mine…
JENNIFER ELISABETH

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinnin...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportuniti...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes alm...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenti...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.
JENNIFER ELISABETH

Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to cha...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, ca...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and w...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desi...
ELISABETH SHUE

I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimula...
ELISABETH SHUE

Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, ...
ELISABETH LENK

The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown," the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale . . .

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The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown," the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale . . .

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