Christine Guirguis > Christine's Quotes

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“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, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“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, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

“Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity

“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, These Strange Ashes

“Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men”
― Elizabeth Elliot, The Mark of a Man

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Emmanuel Kant

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“إذا قرأت أن الحب يشفى و ان المسيح كان يشفى بالحب ..فتأكد انك تقرأ حقيقة علمية”
― مصطفى محمود, في الحب والحياة

“That’s what you get for being food.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
― Albert Einstein

“If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“الزواج أعلى درجات الأمل في بلاد اللا طموح. إنه الخلاص المثالي لأية امرأة مداركها العقلية ضيقة، مصابة بقصر النظر و لا تجيد تأمين مستقبلها.
على أي حال، لا يتم اختيار زوج مناسب، بل اكتشافه.
هناك واحدٌ بين كل ألف رجل يصلح للزواج.
الحُبُّ أو الزواج هو السراب الكبير في حياتنا.
لنتجنّب الوحدة، نضطر لاختيار أسوأ الاحتمالات; أن نكون مع أي شخص.
الفتيات عادة يقمن بذلك، و تنتهي القصة ببضعة أطفال، يصرخون:"ماما" لامرأة حزينة.”
― ياسر ثابت, ذنب