C. Elizabeth Quotes
Time is redeemed when you make the most of your life by fulfilling God's purposes.
It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.
This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained.
By remembering how much we have to be grateful for we remind ourselves how beautifully God is already providing for our current needs.
Whatever her dream was, it rested somewhere in the most vague of directions.
I was living "every girl's" dream. But I had yet to find my own passion, my personal project, the thing that would help make Paris mine.
Do you truly feel that she is worth your wings?”He smiled. “What good are my wings, friend, when I can hold theworld in my arms?
He moved closer to her. “You did not have to get me anything. The fact that you did means I have been in your thoughts. I am thankful for that.
Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic, "scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
Was he a real goblin? A minute ago Ben would have scoffed at the prospect, but then came the dragon.
Poor Amy. I could tell she was suffering. Poor Thing. Life was so tough for the rich, beautiful and magical.
How do you express a skinny blonde werewolf and a former toad in a cake?
Our conduct is an advertisement for or against Jesus Christ. That’s why unity in the body of Christ is so important.
Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.
Only one life, it will soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.
God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus.
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, " he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
It’s easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.
You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.
I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.
Many are the friendships that have found an unforseeen and sudden end on a journey, and few are those that survive it.
Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.
A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.
Music could do that, create a magical oasis where nothing else mattered except hearing the next line of the score.
Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.
...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.
So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
how much he loved being alone except when he didn't, except when it got to be too much?
The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.
God’s Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking.
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.
He said little about his dream but he nourished it in his heart as the best place for a dream to grow.
To live out God’s plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself…and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.
Was it possible to find recompense, meaning, connection with others amidst the mess and the muddle ?
Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past.
Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.
Truly it is the hardest of all trials to see souls so dear in pains we cannot remedy.
Please do make your decisions in life and feel confident that they are right.However, if fate is involved, feel just as confident even if they aren’t.
She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her.Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.
Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.