When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot — 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
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
...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
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
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms. — 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
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
“The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God.… — 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
“[God] seems so much 'for us' these days. I have not lost one nameable thing by putting her and our whole affair… — 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
![“[God] seems so much 'for us' these days. I have not lost one nameable thing by putting her and our whole affair in the simplest way possible into His hands. There has been no careful planning, no worrying over details in the matter. I have simply recognized love in me, declared it to her, and to…” quote by Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c6/elisabeth-elliot-1209_christian_god-seems-so-much-for-us-these-days-i-ha_3023004.jpg)
