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Elisabeth Elliot Quotes | Quotes said by Elisabeth Elliot

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #1

    ...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.


  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #2

    A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #3

    A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. “Young woman,” said he. “You don’t reconcile friends

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #4

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

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #5

    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.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #6

    Christ is sufficient. We do not need support groups for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #7

    Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #8

    Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #9

    Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addressed, taken possession of, known, acted upon, I have heard the Master. I put myself gladly, fully, and forever at His disposal, and to whatever He says my answer is yes.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #10

    Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #11

    Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #12

    Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #13

    Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #14

    Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #15

    Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #16

    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.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #17

    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 Quote #18

    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 Quote #19

    God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #20

    He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #21

    He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things’.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #22

    He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #23

    His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #24

    I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory making out and sleeping around, we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

    I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #27

    I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #28

    I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts. Its easy to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence – easier sometimes than to wait patiently.

  • Elisabeth Elliot Quote #29

    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 Quote #30

    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.

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