Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

“Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.”

“If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to l...”

“Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.”

“It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated ...”

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

“Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!”

“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.”

“God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked t...”

“I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Dont expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.”

“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 unb...”

“This is the context in which the story must be understood—as one incident in human history, an incident in certain ways and to certain people important, but only one incident. God is the God of hum...”

“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.”