If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
“If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and a whole… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
“I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
“What do women want today? What do men want? I mean, deep down. What do they really want? If ‘times’ have changed, have human… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
