“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
...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked… — 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
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by… — 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
The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes… — 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
