Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living.
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The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.
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God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.
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Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
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I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable.
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Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
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The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'
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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
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Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.
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If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.
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Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.