Elisabeth Elliot Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• 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

  48 Copy quote

• Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Stupid, Sheep, Want

  11 Copy quote

• If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Needs, Walk By Faith, Walks

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp Unto My Feet: The Bible's Light For Your Daily Walk”, p.47, Revell

  14 Copy quote

• The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Real, One Day At A Time, Today

  Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.31, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

  85 Copy quote

• It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Journey, Stopping

  Elisabeth Elliot (1976). “Twelve Baskets of Crumbs”

  41 Copy quote

• The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Son, Principles, Add

  81 Copy quote

• I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Pain, Women, Thinking

  42 Copy quote

• What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Giving, Needs

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.157, Gospel Light Publications

  20 Copy quote

• 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.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Obedience, Holy, Worthy

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

  74 Copy quote

• 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

  72 Copy quote

• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Giving, Missionary, Ecuador

  "Shadow of the Almighty". Book by Elisabeth Elliot, 1958.

  27 Copy quote

• I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Patience, Spiritual

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.89, Revell

  43 Copy quote

• What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Feels, Ought

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.143, Revell

  29 Copy quote

• No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Commitment, Two, Long

  51 Copy quote

• Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

  95 Copy quote

• I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Desire, Energy

  Elisabeth Elliot (2010). “Through Gates of Splendor”, p.43, Hendrickson Publishers

  73 Copy quote

• 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

  68 Copy quote

• 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

  11 Copy quote

• It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Would Be, Way, Impossible

  11 Copy quote

• 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

  40 Copy quote

• There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Life Changing, Dying, Things Worth Dying For

  64 Copy quote

• For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Morning, Prayer

  28 Copy quote

• We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Heart, Spiritual Disciplines

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.44, Revell

  20 Copy quote

• True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Answers, Operations, True Faith

  7 Copy quote

• Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Affection, Christ, Jesus Love

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.41, Revell

  56 Copy quote

Page 3 of 10

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin