Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by… — 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
...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
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. Love is… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. — 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
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
“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
“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
“He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are… — 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
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all… — 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
A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows… — 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 to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love… — 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
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
