The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be… — 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
George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength.… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does… — 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
I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is… — 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
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his… — 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
