If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
ELISABETH ELLIOTIf my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
ELISABETH ELLIOTFaith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
ELISABETH ELLIOTTo love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God, or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIf your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
ELISABETH ELLIOTYou will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
ELISABETH ELLIOTA man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived – not always looked forward to as though the “real” living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThere is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
ELISABETH ELLIOTGod 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 ELLIOTIf 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’.
ELISABETH ELLIOTI have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
ELISABETH ELLIOTRemind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
ELISABETH ELLIOTToday is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
ELISABETH ELLIOTOur Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
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