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

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Source : Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.90, Revell

Elisabeth Elliot

#Inspiring Quotes #I Love Him Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.”
“We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering of the former and the decline of the latter. We may wonder that our ancestors over-looked the darker days of those earlier nations. They did not. They hoped to construct a republic on principles to sound that if we should decline in piety and public virtue we would meet the inexorable fate of nations, which are as but dust in the hands of God.”
“My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word?”
“Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.”
“I trust Life. I know it brings me everything that I need at the perfect time and in the perfect way.”
“Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.”
“Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!”

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