It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIt is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
ELISABETH ELLIOTA prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThere is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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.
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 ELLIOTThe secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWe cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
ELISABETH ELLIOTYou are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWhen obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
ELISABETH ELLIOTChoices 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 ELLIOTWhat I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
ELISABETH ELLIOTHeaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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 ELLIOTThe will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
ELISABETH ELLIOTLeave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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