Elisabeth Elliot Quotes about Inspiring

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

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

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!

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

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

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.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

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

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

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.

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

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

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.

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.

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

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

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

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

Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

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

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