I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“There is no ongoing spiritual life without this process of letting go. At the precise point where we refuse, growth stops. If… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Very often (nearly always, I'm afraid) when I come to church my feelings are uppermost in my mind. This is natural. We… — 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
Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no.… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.''… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action.… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. — 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
