No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
ELISABETH ELLIOTOf one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
-
-
There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
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 -
To 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 ELLIOT -
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
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 -
Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
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 -
I 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 ELLIOT -
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
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 -
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 ELLIOT






