Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.
The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.
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.
Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.
We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.
There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.
Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.
In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.
The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.
God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, “let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?
The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.
His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.
Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.
It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot