Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

Action that is clearly right needs no justification.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

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.

Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.

Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

Learning to pray is learning to trust the wisdom, the power, and the love of our Heavenly Father, always so far beyond our dreams.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot

Many deaths must go into us reaching that measure, many letting go's.

You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.

Men like mystery. They don't want to be told everything woman are thinking.

You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.

True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.

Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to "curtail the friendship".

The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things'.

Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard

We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.

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

Insistence that both lead means there won't be any dance.

But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.

Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.

Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.

Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.

The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God's.

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius

There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.

God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.

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.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Money holds terrible power when it is loved

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

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.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.

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?'

Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions ...

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

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

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.

A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.

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.

Self-pity is ... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

God gives all
God asks all

The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.

If He is God, He is still in charge.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.

I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

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

The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.

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.

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

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.

When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.

If he had loved her he would have pursued her.

It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Is no great with Thee, there is no small, For Thou art all, and fillest all in all.

A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks.

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.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

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

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

Jesus never pussyfooted

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