If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it. — 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
If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let… — 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
If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins,… — 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
One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of… — 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… — 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
Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to… — 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
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
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, “let… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Most of the time we like the idea of our own freedom. There are times when we do not at all like… — 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
