Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
“When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.”
Source: Like the Flowing River
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Paulo Coelho844
Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
Parker Palmer (1939) American theologian
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), pp. 49-50
“One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”
Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966) United States Navy fleet admiral
Appended to a variant of the Serenity Prayer in The Armed Forces Prayer Book (1951)
“Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
"Who says words with my mouth?" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Context: Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.