Elisabeth Elliot Quotes About Loneliness

Quotes about: Loneliness

• Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Loneliness, Acceptance, Offering

• Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Lonely, Jesus, Loneliness

• Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Loneliness, Boys

  Elisabeth Elliot (1999). “Taking Flight: Wisdom for Your Journey”, Baker Publishing Group

• The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy. But we may be missing the fact that it is here, where we happen to be at this moment and not in another place or another time, that we may learn to love Him - here where it seems He is not at work, where He seems obscure or frightening, where He is not doing what we expected Him to do, where He is most absent. Here and nowhere else is the appointed place. If faith does not got to work here, it will not work at all.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Pain, Loneliness, Missing

• Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can use for the good of others takes place only when the offering is put into his hands.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Loneliness, Sacrifice, Hands

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.67, Revell

• Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Loneliness, Courses

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