George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His… — 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
Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There… — 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
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
Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something… — 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
