Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Elisabeth Elliot on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
Learning to pray is learning to trust the wisdom, the power, and the love of our Heavenly Father, always so far beyond our dreams.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.
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.
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.
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.
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 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.
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.
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.
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.
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
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.
There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.
Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.
In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.
No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
Self-pity is ... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
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.
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
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.
What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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?'