Elisabeth Elliot Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

• The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Humble, Loss, Simple

• Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Blessing, Hands, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.126, Revell

• Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sweet, People, Joy

• It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Hurt, Jobs, Heart

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

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Joy, Gateways

• The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Jesus, Men

• Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Taken, Feet, Support

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

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Reflection, Joy, Littles

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.90, Revell

• Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Joy, Impatience, Passion And Purity

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