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There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
— Elie Wiesel
I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
— Elie Wiesel
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.
— Elisabeth Elliot
You can create a climate for him according to your attitude, and this is part of your job as a wife. The home you make and the atmosphere of that home is the world he comes back to from the world of his work. Let it be a place of beauty and peace.
— Elisabeth Elliot
And so it often is. Faith, prayer, and obedience are our requirements. We are not offered in exchange immunity and exemption from the world's woes. What we are offered has to do with another world altogether.
— Elisabeth Elliot
There is a whole world of difference between those who look only for their own happiness in this world and those who know their true happiness lies in the will of God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
According to the New Testament, saints are those who belong to Christ, in whom Christ lives. We are meant to be saints not only when we get to heaven, but right here in this world.
— Elisabeth Elliot
For this cause…for this privilege…you were born—to shine lights into the world for God.
— Elizabeth George
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
— Alice Walker
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
— Alice Walker