T. S. Elliot Quotes

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

Plant spirit medicine is the shaman’s way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!

So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.

Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

I want to be cutting-edge.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.

There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

Jesus never pussyfooted

Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

My dad was in the Navy, so we moved around a lot. That led to me seeing myriad cultures and cuisines. I have been excited about eating and cooking for as long as I can remember.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

The double chin's not good for the red carpet.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.

Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.

The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.

We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.

There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

The most successful filmmakers are not always the most knowledgeable ones. They are the ones who put action to what they learnt. They do, not talk about doing.

Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.

I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it

I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.