Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

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.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

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 a habit of life.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.

God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.

It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.

The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

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 back to you?'

A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

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 we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).