Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

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.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

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, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.

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

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

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.

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

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 is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ

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

When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.

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

This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.

A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.

Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for