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Quote by Elisabeth Elliot

“Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.”

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Elisabeth Elliot was an American author known for her descriptions of missionary life and profound explorations of Christian faith. Her works, including 'In This Day of Grace' and 'Passion and Purity', have influenced countless readers. more

“A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.”

People Desire Order Choices Understanding Creation Personality Depends Taste Harmony Determine Available Lists God Love You Choose

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.”

Seems Prove Evidence Tests Vain Severe Stunning

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

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

Giving Given Acceptance

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

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

Mean Loss Inspiring Crosses Encounters Followers Sooner Or Later

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.”

Want Faces Needed Speed Buttons Powerless Stop Time

Author:Sara Zarr

“You were never what I wanted to forget.”

Wanted Forget

Author:Sara Zarr

“I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. That seems to be hopeless; once you see that you lose all hope.”

People Kind Two Book Loses Week New York Afternoon Two Weeks Bookshops

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.”

Country Love Is Emotion Emotional Willing Neighbor Factors Sentiments Flags Sentimental Identification Rags Country Love

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions

“It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.”

Fun Views Ordinary Extraordinary Complacent

Book:Full Moon Rising: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel

Source: Full Moon Rising: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel

“It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”

Want Kids Young Wish Wish You Being A Kid Before I Fall

Author:Lauren Oliver

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