Elisabeth Elliot Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Pain, Suffering

• This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Opportunity, Long

• We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Broken, Suffering, Ashes

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.34, Gospel Light Publications

• Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Son, Hard Times, Fire

• The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Strong, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.15, Revell

• God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Opposites, Discipline

• If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Children, Struggle

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.91, Revell

• Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Hate, Reality, Suffering

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.85, Revell

• The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Mean, Suffering

• One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Years, Suffering, Widowhood

  Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books

• Most of the time we like the idea of our own freedom. There are times when we do not at all like the idea of the freedom of others. If we suffer because of their freedom, let us remember that they suffer because of ours.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Ideas, Suffering, Remember

• The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that kind of man--glad that God made you a man, glad to shoulder the burden of manliness in a time when to do so will often bring contempt.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Strong, Men, Suffering

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.15, Revell

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