Elisabeth Elliot: Quotes about life

Elisabeth Elliot was American missionary. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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