Elisabeth Elliot Quotes About Sacrifice

Quotes about: Sacrifice

• 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

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

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Lonely, Jesus, Loneliness

• Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

• It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sacrifice, Deep Love, Impossible

• 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

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