“God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.” — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.''… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins,… — 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… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Very often (nearly always, I'm afraid) when I come to church my feelings are uppermost in my mind. This is natural. We… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time--His time. His thoughts are… — 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
