Elisabeth Elliot Quotes – Wisdom and Inspiration

Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

The deepest things that I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering.

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience.

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

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

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty.

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

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 stunt the growth of the soul.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross.

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

In order to learn what it means to be a woman, we must start with the One who made her.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun’s shining or not.

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience – it looks for a way of being constructive.

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.

Leave it all in the hands that were wounded for you.

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose.

Elisabeth Elliot Quotes – Wisdom and Inspiration part 2

Leave all the consequences to God.

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.

Until we have repented in our conduct we should not be surprised if we do not feel at home.

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem.

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

Christianity is not something which can be added to a human being’s life, or to society, as one more improvement.

When life on earth is done, and heaven is begun, my first thought will be, ‘I blew it,’ and my second, ‘He knew it.’

I had learning, fortunately, so I decided to take my mind off myself and take up something new. I would learn Hebrew, another alphabet, write a book, do research.

Sometimes life doesn’t give you what you want, not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve more.

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

Love is not an easy thing; it is not just an emotion.

It is not the objective proof of God’s existence that we want, but the experience of God’s presence.

You don’t have to have courage every day, just on the day it’s required.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives himself.

Let the things that frighten you become useful tools in the Master’s hand.

If we held one another to account, wouldn’t it help?

We must not be distracted by the multiple interests of the age.

Perspective is more than what we look at. It’s how we interpret what we see.

Do you hesistate to surrender wholly to Jesus? Because of the consequences?

Integrity? A lust for praise can be substituted for it, but the only antidote is.

Alfred Sorsazo

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