Elisabeth Elliot Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• 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.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

• 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

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Lying, Mean

• Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Strong, Fall, Errors

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.142, Revell

• The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action. They have no authority. A life lived in God is not lived on the plane of the feelings, but of the will. In Scripture the heart is the will - the man himself, the spring of all action, the ruling power bestowed on him by his Creator, capable of choosing and acting.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.35, Revell

• No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Feel Good, Feelings, Firsts

• There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Feelings, Christianity, Mood

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.27, Revell

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