--- title: "4 Discipleship Quotes By Elisabeth Elliot" description: "4 Discipleship quotes by Elisabeth Elliot. Plus more from Elisabeth Elliot and more Discipleship sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/211/elisabeth-elliot-1209_despise_let-not-him-who-accepts-light-in-an-inst_523846.png" --- > [“Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/let-not-him-who-accepts-light-in-an-instant-despise-him-who-gropes/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/211/elisabeth-elliot-1209_despise_let-not-him-who-accepts-light-in-an-inst_523846.png) > [Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/holiness-has-never-been-the-driving-force-of-the-majority-it-is/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/588/elisabeth-elliot-1209_discipleship_holiness-has-never-been-the-driving-forc_2650138.png) > [We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/we-are-not-meant-to-die-merely-in-order-to-be-dead-god-could-not-want/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cc/elisabeth-elliot-1209_creatures_we-are-not-meant-to-die-merely-in-order_2690752.png) > [“It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/it-takes-a-while-for-revelry-to-turn-to-reverence-and-much-repetition/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/elisabeth-elliot-1209_discipleship_it-takes-a-while-for-revelry-to-turn-to_2732801.png) ## Other authors on Discipleship - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dietrich-bonhoeffer-29418.jpg) Dietrich Bonhoeffer 41 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/dietrich-bonhoeffer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-megan-mckenna-3094.jpg) Megan McKenna 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/megan-mckenna/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-rohr-78871.jpg) Richard Rohr 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/richard-rohr/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oswald-chambers-72884.jpg) Oswald Chambers 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/oswald-chambers/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-howard-g-hendricks-42414.jpg) Howard G. Hendricks 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/howard-g-hendricks/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dieter-f-uchtdorf-29412.jpg) Dieter F. Uchtdorf 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/dieter-f-uchtdorf/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dallas-willard-26056.jpg) Dallas Willard 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/dallas-willard/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-n-t-wright-1173.jpg) N.T. Wright 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/n-t-wright/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-miller-30027.jpg) Donald Miller 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/donald-miller/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-brennan-manning-19369.jpg) Brennan Manning 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/brennan-manning/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-watchman-nee-94607.jpg) Watchman Nee 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/watchman-nee/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neal-a-maxwell-70598.jpg) Neal A. Maxwell 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/neal-a-maxwell/) ## More by Elisabeth Elliot > [All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/all-our-problems-are-theological-ones-william-temple-said-all-of-them/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/discipline-for-the-christian-begins-with-the-body-we-have-only-one-it/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/it-seems-disrespectful-to-me-to-see-ladies-in-church-in-very-short/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/the-deepest-lessons-come-out-of-the-deepest-waters-and-the-hottest/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/everything-if-given-to-god-can-become-your-gateway-to-joy/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/lead-me-lord-to-the-rock-that-is-higher-than-i-let-me-hear-your-word/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/experience-had-quickly-taught-her-that-she-could-not-survive-the/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/the-pain-of-loneliness-is-one-way-in-which-he-wants-to-get-our/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [“If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and a whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/if-men-and-women-were-surer-of-their-god-there-would-be-more-genuine/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/i-believe-with-all-my-heart-god-s-story-has-a-happy-ending-but-not/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [“I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/i-do-know-that-waiting-on-god-requires-the-willingness-to-bear/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [“What do women want today? What do men want? I mean, deep down. What do they really want? If ‘times’ have changed, have human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/what-do-women-want-today-what-do-men-want-i-mean-deep-down-what-do/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/god-will-never-disappoint-us-if-deep-in-our-hearts-we-suspect-that/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/muddled-thinking-inevitably-results-in-muddled-living/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/the-world-cries-for-men-who-are-strong-strong-in-conviction-strong-to/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipleship/elisabeth-elliot/#itemlist", "name": "4 Discipleship Quotes By Elisabeth Elliot", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elisabeth Elliot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/let-not-him-who-accepts-light-in-an-instant-despise-him-who-gropes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/211/elisabeth-elliot-1209_despise_let-not-him-who-accepts-light-in-an-inst_523846.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/211/elisabeth-elliot-1209_despise_let-not-him-who-accepts-light-in-an-inst_523846.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/211/elisabeth-elliot-1209_despise_let-not-him-who-accepts-light-in-an-inst_523846.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.” — Elisabeth Elliot", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. 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