Elisabeth Elliot Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing not to have what God is not willing to give. Furthermore, faith does not insist upon an explanation. It is enough to know His promises to give what is good-he knows so much more about us than we do.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Faith, Father, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

• The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Believe, Heart

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.50, Revell

• 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.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Fathers Day, Jobs, Knees

• Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Pain, Father, Humility

• Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His divine commission and the stern demands of His incarnation. Never was there a word or even a look of complaint.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Father, Humanity

• The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Heart, Needs

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.161, Revell

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

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Heavenly Father, Heavenly

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.34, Revell

• If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Order, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life”, p.46, Revell

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