Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

“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?”

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

“...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 re...”

“Prayer is a law of the universe. As God has ordained that certain physical laws should govern the law of this universe, so He has ordained the spiritual law. Books simply will not stay put on the t...”

“There is no such thing as Christian work. That is, there is no work in the world which is, in and of itself, Christian. Christian work is any kind of work, from cleaning a sewer to preaching a serm...”

“What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, "Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be -- let me be a woman?”

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

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

“We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is...”

“Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.”

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

“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.”

“Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.”

“If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ou...”

“It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men do. This is a distortion and a travesty. Men have never sought to prove that they can do all...”

“Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you”

“Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men”

“Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.”

“The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.”

“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 ...”