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Elisabeth Elliot was a Christian author and speaker. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca of eastern Ecuador. She later spent two years as a missionary to the tribe members who killed her husband. Returning to the United States after many years in South America, she became widely known as the author of over twenty books and as a speaker. Elliot toured the country, sharing her knowledge and experience, well into her seventies. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. December 1926 – 15. June 2015

Works

Passion and Purity
Passion and Purity
Elisabeth Elliot
Through Gates of Splendor
Passion and Purity
Passion and Purity
Elisabeth Elliot
Through Gates of Splendor
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Famous Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

“Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: The Mark of a Man

“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”

Elisabeth Elliot book Through Gates of Splendor

Source: Through Gates of Splendor

“Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.”

Elisabeth Elliot

“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“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

Elisabeth Elliot Quotes about God

“The 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 Elliot

“The 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 Elliot

Source: Let Me be a Woman

“The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life,
the greater peace.”

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

“Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“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

Elisabeth Elliot Quotes about life

“The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Let Me be a Woman

“We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“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

“Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart’s truth.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

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“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

“Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: These Strange Ashes

“Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Keep a Quiet Heart

Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: These Strange Ashes

“God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.”

Elisabeth Elliot

“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”

Elisabeth Elliot

“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

“Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Let Me be a Woman

“Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.”

Elisabeth Elliot

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: The Journals of Jim Elliot

“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

Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender

“Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Let Me be a Woman

“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

Source: These Strange Ashes

“The 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 Elliot

“We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.”

Elisabeth Elliot

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”

Elisabeth Elliot

“The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Keep a Quiet Heart

“Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Let Me be a Woman

“Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.”

Elisabeth Elliot

“When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: These Strange Ashes

“The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: The Mark of a Man

“She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Let Me be a Woman

“Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.”

Elisabeth Elliot book Passion and Purity

Source: Passion and Purity

“Jesus never pussyfooted”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: The Mark of a Man

“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”

Elisabeth Elliot book Passion and Purity

Source: Passion and Purity

“Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Let Me be a Woman

“The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

“Today 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 Elliot

Source: Keep a Quiet Heart

“The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

“He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.”

Elisabeth Elliot

“You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: Keep a Quiet Heart

“Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: These Strange Ashes

“God has promised to supply our needs. What we don’t have now we don’t need now.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Source: The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God

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