“Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright.… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly… — 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
“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. “Young woman,”… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace it… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men do.… — 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
