It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIt is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
ELISABETH ELLIOTOur future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIf it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
ELISABETH ELLIOTRestlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWe cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
ELISABETH ELLIOTA prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
ELISABETH ELLIOTUntil 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 ELLIOTFor 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 ELLIOTI 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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTA man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
ELISABETH ELLIOTSometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
ELISABETH ELLIOTSometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThere is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIt is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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