Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown," the great physician William Osler… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense,… — 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
