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
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
I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing… — 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 heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does… — 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
God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out"… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves — 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
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
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
Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace. — 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
