Elisabeth Elliot Quotes - Page 5

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• A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.

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  Men, Gentleman

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• Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

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  Blessing, Hands, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.126, Revell

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• Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

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  Inspiring, Ashes, Stories

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• When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

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  Moving, Years, Useless

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.92, Gospel Light Publications

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• Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

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  Inspiring, Prayer, Forget

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• All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

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  Christian, Prayer, Temples

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life”, p.50, Revell

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• We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.

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  Hands, Promise, Needs

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life”, p.31, Revell

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• The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.

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  Christian, Blessed, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.69, Revell

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• 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.

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  Broken, Suffering, Ashes

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

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• Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

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  Mean, Opposites, Modesty

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• God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, "If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross." There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, "God has no right to do this to five men unless...

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  Attitude, Heart, Son

  Elisabeth Elliot (2010). “Through Gates of Splendor”, p.266, Hendrickson Publishers

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• If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.

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  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.9, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart.

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  Hurt, Jobs, Heart

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• The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action. They have no authority. A life lived in God is not lived on the plane of the feelings, but of the will. In Scripture the heart is the will - the man himself, the spring of all action, the ruling power bestowed on him by his Creator, capable of choosing and acting.

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  Spring, Heart, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.35, Revell

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• 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.

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  Christian, Sex, Lying

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• By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

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  Inspiring, Christian, Trying

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.23, Revell

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• Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.

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  Thinking, Together, May

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• My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.

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  Determination, Self, Practice

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• I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.

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  Believe, Heart, Stories

  Elisabeth Elliot (2015). “Through Gates of Splendor”, p.269, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

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  Thinking, America, Hands

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• Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.

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  Sweet, People, Joy

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• New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.

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  New Year, Eye, Years

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• In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

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  Helping Others, Giving, Doe

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life”, p.58, Revell

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• A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a matter of attitude. I am convinced that the woman who understands and accepts with gladness the difference between masculine and feminine will be, without pretense or self-consciousness, womanly.

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  Attitude, Real, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.171, Revell

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• No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

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  Feel Good, Feelings, Firsts

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