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
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
...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
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
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as… — 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
Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot — 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
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
“The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time--His time. His thoughts are… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as… — 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
If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of… — 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
