Elisabeth Elliot Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

• 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

• God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

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  Obedience, Holy, Worthy

  Elisabeth Elliot (1996). “Gates of Splendor”, GuildAmerica Books

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

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, I Love Him, Thinking

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

• To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Real, Godly, Men

• Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Lying, Small Acts, Events

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.145, Revell

• A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Struggle, Obedience, Whole

• 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.

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  Strong, Fall, Errors

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

• A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Sex, Lying

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