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
Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you… — 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
“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our… — 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
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace it… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“If the life of a man or woman on earth is to bear the fragrance of heaven the winds of God must… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“We may not say that we have the answers. Questions of how to conduct oneself as a Christian, or how to serve… — 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
“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
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
I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“There is no ongoing spiritual life without this process of letting go. At the precise point where we refuse, growth stops. If… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows… — 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
