Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Action that is clearly right needs no justification.
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Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
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My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.
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I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
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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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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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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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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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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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A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
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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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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.
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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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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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Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.