Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation… — 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
