The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. — 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
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Most of the time we like the idea of our own freedom. There are times when we do not at all like… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love… — 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
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
