Passion And Purity Quotes

• If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Christian, Heart

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• 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.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Waiting, Unanswered Questions

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• By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Christian, Trying

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.23, Revell

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• Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Joy, Impatience, Restlessness

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• Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Commitment, Giving, Wife

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.154, Revell

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• I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Patience, Spiritual

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.89, Revell

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• Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

  Cyril Connolly

  Passion, Ignorance, Darkness

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• Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Affection, Difficult

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.34, Revell

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• When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

  Jim Elliot

  Inspiring, Travel, Dies

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• Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

  Chanakya

  Education, Wisdom, Heart

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• If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Letting Go, Mean, Maturity

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• But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Silent, Feels, Ought

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.62, Revell

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• When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Moving, Years, Useless

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.92, Gospel Light Publications

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• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sex, Sleep, Heart

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• Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Maturity, Giving, Oneself

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• Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

  Jim Elliot

  Longing, Appetite

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• Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Affection, Christ, Jesus Love

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.41, Revell

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• Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Waiting, Hardest, Hardest Thing

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.62, Revell

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• There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

  Saint Augustine

  Powerful, Passion, Sleep

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• I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Men, Dating, Principles

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.129, Revell

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

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Death, Dying, Dies

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• You get what you pay for.

  Gabriel Biel

  Pay, Contradicting, Cradle

  "Expositio Canonis Missae" by Gabriel Biel, Lectio 86, 1576.

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• 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.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Order, Want

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.73, Revell

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• Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Dream, Men, Confusion

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.30, Revell

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• Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

  William Faulkner

  Passion, World, Purity

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