Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

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Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions...

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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 up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!

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

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The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.

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One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

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The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.

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Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ's sake. Amen.

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

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If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

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The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.

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Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.

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I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

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

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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).

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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'.

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One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.

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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 believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.

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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.

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Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

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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.

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Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men

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

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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.

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What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?

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But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?

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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 on your knees if nothing else ever did.

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God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

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God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, "If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross." There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, "God has no right to do this to five men unless...

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