“I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how… — 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
“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
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.” — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things’.” — 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
Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are… — 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
God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“TO understand the meaning of womanhood we have to start with God. If He is indeed “Creator of all things visible and… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also… — 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
