Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.”
in an interview http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n12/htdocs/ursula-k-le-guin-440.php?country=uk in Vice Magazine. <br class="br">Context: Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.
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