black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 Elliot

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Myself Need Reminder Talk
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Cruelty Forever Greatness Love Wrong
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Heart Himself Learning Obedience Prayer Slow Sorrow
Choices 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 ELLIOT

Act Choice Death Errors Feeling Forget Necessary Obedience Possible
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Eliminate Faith Place Question
The 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 ELLIOT

Different Fact Kind Myself Religion Woman
If 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 ELLIOT

Appearance Believe Big Control God
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?
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Creation God Love Place Purpose Trust Yourself
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Change Impatience Joy Ourselves Peace
Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Evidence Faith Ourselves See Stunning
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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

God Oneself Thinking Uncertain Wait Willing
God 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 ELLIOT

Beyond God Himself Holy Obedience Talk Trust
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Enough God Grace Heart Quite
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Hands Leaving Wound Yourself
If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Faith Need Religious Uncertain Unknown Walk
Our 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 ELLIOT

Confidence Control Fear Future Hands Intimidation Ourselves Strong

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!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes