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
Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, perfectly designed… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. Love is… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking… — 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
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude? — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“We may not say that we have the answers. Questions of how to conduct oneself as a Christian, or how to serve… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“[God] seems so much 'for us' these days. I have not lost one nameable thing by putting her and our whole affair… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace. Elisabeth Elliot” — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
