...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
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
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
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
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
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 holy. But we may be missing the fact that it is here, where we happen to be at this moment and not in another place or another time, that we may learn to love Him -… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share
“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
