"Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others."

-- Elisabeth Elliot

#Loneliness Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Offering Quotes

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

Source : CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”
“An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.”

Source : Denis Hayes (2000). “The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair”, p.40, Island Press
“The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.”
“I have to work hard for my family. They don't have a lot.”
“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.”
“If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.”
“In no state in America is it legal for a landlord to demand their tenants lead a "healthy lifestyle" in order to rent property.”
“how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.”

Source : Elinor Glyn (1907). “Three Weeks”

You may also like:

Amy Carmichael
Corrie Ten Boom
Author
Gladys Aylward
Missionary
Jim Elliot
Missionary
Joni Eareckson Tada
Author
Mary Slessor
Missionary
Nate Saint
Missionary
Oswald Chambers
Steve Saint
Pilot