I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to… — 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
