God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before… — 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
To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a… — 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… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him. — 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
