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Only Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
- 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…
- One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two…
- A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.
- Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
- Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for…
- This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him,…
- My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive…
- New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.
- Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer…
- One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
- If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we…
- We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.
- The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.
- God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well…
- Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
- I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that…
- Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The…
- One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the…
- Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
- To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is…
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