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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. décembre 1926 – 15. juin 2015
Elisabeth Elliot: 58 citations21 J'aime

Elisabeth Elliot: Citations en anglais

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

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Elisabeth Elliot livre 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.”

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

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Source: The Mark of a Man

“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.”

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

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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.”

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

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

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

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Source: These Strange Ashes

“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.”

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Source: These Strange Ashes

“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.”

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Source: Let Me be a Woman

“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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”

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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.”

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Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender

“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.”

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“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.”

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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.”

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“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.”

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Source: These Strange Ashes

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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“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!”

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“By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.”

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Elisabeth Elliot livre Passion and Purity

Source: Passion and Purity

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