T. S. Elliot Quotes

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

Wherever you are - be all there.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

Art is literacy of the heart

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

It's hard to steer a parked car.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

Honesty is all you need.

A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.