No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness… — 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
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention?… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find marriage, who, when, where?… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers?… — 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
