Elisabeth Elliot: Quotes about love

Elisabeth Elliot was American missionary. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Elisabeth Elliot: 116 quotes 21 likes

“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”

Elisabeth Elliot

Love , God , Pleasure , Thinking

“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

Love , Wisdom , God , Time

“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

Love , Life , God , Time

“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

Love , Christ

“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

Love , World

“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

Love , Life , Truth , Understanding