Elisabeth Elliot - Let Me Be a Woman (1976)

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The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.

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

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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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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.

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The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

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Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

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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.

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The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

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The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

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