A Quote by Elisabeth Elliot

Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten. — © Elisabeth Elliot
Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.
Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.
These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.
I think women are often taken for granted.
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.
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