Christianity Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

11 Christianity quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

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Elliot’s words often read like a prayerful call to action, and this brief collection reflects that urgency. Her eleven reflections combine devotion with a fierce commitment to living out faith.

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“I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright.…

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“He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are…

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

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“Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that…

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“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails…

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“God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but…

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God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly…

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“A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. “Young woman,”…

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“Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace it…

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One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of…

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“It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men do.…

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Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us…

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It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could…

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

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

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Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily,…

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Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she…

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The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and…

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“If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and a whole…

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I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to…

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“I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to…

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“What do women want today? What do men want? I mean, deep down. What do they really want? If ‘times’ have changed, have human…

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God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as…

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Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living

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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…

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