Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

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• 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.

  

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  • Freedom
  • Gifts
  • Limitations

• Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

  

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  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Attention

• Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

  

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  • Work
  • God
  • Blessing

• Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

  

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  • Things
  • Prayer
  • Forget

• One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

  

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  • Lifetime
  • Surrender
  • Lifelong

• Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men.

  

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  • Women
  • Willing
  • Calling

• Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers? make its bed? smell its stench? stay at nights with it? take care of it when it cries? heal its rashes and sores? and on top of that care for my spouse, provide labor at my trade, take care of this and take care of that? do this and do that? and endure this and endure that? Why should I make such a prisoner of myself?

  

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  • Reason
  • Marriage
  • Care

• This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.

  

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  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Prayer

• Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure.

  

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  • Experience
  • Loving
  • Sure

• A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

  

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  • God
  • Heart
  • Learn

• The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

  

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  • Silence
  • Solitude
  • Noise

• Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.

  

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  • Suffering
  • Son
  • Imagine

• Most of the time we like the idea of our own freedom. There are times when we do not at all like the idea of the freedom of others. If we suffer because of their freedom, let us remember that they suffer because of ours.

  

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  • Remember
  • Freedom
  • Idea

• Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

  

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  • Force
  • Kingdom
  • Holiness

• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  

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  • Convinced
  • Human Heart
  • Virginity

• Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

  

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  • Modesty
  • Conduct
  • Familiarity

• Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

  

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  • Believe
  • Created
  • Trust God

• The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

  

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  • God's Will

• To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

  

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  • Loss
  • Means
  • Cross

• I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

  

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  • Love
  • Patience
  • Learned

• Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach their children to love God they must show their love for Him by loving each other and loving the children.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Children
  • Love

• To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

  

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  • Measured
  • Appointment
  • Love God

• Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment.

  

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  • Wife
  • Church
  • Christ

• One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.

  

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  • God
  • Business
  • Reason