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Marriage Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

10 Marriage quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

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Elisabeth Elliot’s reflections on marriage weave faith and everyday life into a concise set of ten observations. Her gentle, earnest tone invites readers to consider how belief shapes commitment, making this brief collection a useful primer for those seeking spiritually grounded perspectives on partnership.

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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

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The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to…

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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

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“Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself…

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If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness…

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A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There…

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Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention?…

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Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head…

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“Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find marriage, who, when, where?…

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Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers?…

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Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

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Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily,…

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“If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and a whole…

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I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to…

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“I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to…

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“What do women want today? What do men want? I mean, deep down. What do they really want? If ‘times’ have changed, have human…

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God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as…

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Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living

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The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that…

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