Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

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• Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes…
• Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We…
• Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given…
• If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is…
• In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
• Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet…
• She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome…
• It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes…
• The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
• All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and…
• Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.
• For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer…
• You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to…
• If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you…
• There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I…
• Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next.…
• A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a matter of attitude.…
• The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that kind…
• 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.…
• In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.

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