Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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God gives all God asks all
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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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Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.
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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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Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.
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I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
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Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.
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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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Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
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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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You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.
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If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.
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Action that is clearly right needs no justification.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.
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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.