A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing… — 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
In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God… — 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
I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still… — 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
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention?… — 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
To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies"… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no.… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to… — 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
[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to… — 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… — 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
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
![“[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.” quote by Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/404/elisabeth-elliot-1209_amy_amy-carmichael-s-great-longing-was-to-ha_1010895.jpg)
