Elliot Quotes
Elliot Quote of the day
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.
It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot
We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won’t let us move forward.
I give him the kind of smile only shared between two people who desperately hate something and thoroughly enjoy hating it together.
The question is simply, 'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.
For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population.
There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.
I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s not so easy, moving forward.
We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.
This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.
yes. Menace and danger, That's what passion is-dangerous love-love that put you at risk, that gets a hold of you and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. It's the only love worth having..
The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.
I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every minute. They’ll be over soon enough, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.
In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.
I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.
You will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can remember where that is.
