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Elisabeth Elliot was an American author known for her descriptions of missionary life and profound explorations of Christian faith. Her works, including 'In This Day of Grace' and 'Passion and Purity', have influenced countless readers.

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“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.”

Love Inspirational God Christian Jesus Christ Lord Will Lordship Affections

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

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

“The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.”

Helping Christ Church Support Wife Husband Bless

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment.”

Has Beens Home Christ Church Wife Willing Authority Married Males Supreme Fulfillment Representatives Submission Capitulation

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that seem out of control caused by God? Or does He allow them to occur at the hands of human beings? You can spend a lot of time pondering that one and end up pretty much where you started. In either case, the purpose remains the same - our sanctification. God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.”

Humans Doe Ends Matter Hands Reality Seems Purpose Christ Human Beings Cases Events Example Walking Remains Invisible Breathing Theologian Pondering Sanctification Does It Matter

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ's sake. Amen.”

Giving Heart Christ Lord Grace Rocks Higher My Heart One Day Stones Let Me Give Me Sake Flood Amen Leading Me

Book:A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk

Source: A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk

“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.”

Ifs Needs Doe Lying Christ Security Guides Hiding Refuge Saviour Shepherds Redeemer Counselor Hiding Place Strongholds

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“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.”

Inspiration Given Christ Rocks Taught Promise Storm Anchors Goeth

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.”

Ifs Want Giving Mean Soul Self Used Given Growth Christ Loses Offers Letting Go Maturity Reaching True Self Giver Unwilling Passion And Purity

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.”

Christ Accepting Authority Affection Jesus Love Lordship Love And Affection Passion And Purity

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

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

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

Different Christ Inspiring Secret Circumstances

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.”

Knows Years Doe I Can Christ Lifetime Surrender Gods Will Maturity Accomplishment Instant Adequate Fullness Lifelong

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

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

Christ Loses Inspiring

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“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.”

Needs May Joy Christ Support Taken Groups Feet Sorrow Crosses Sufficient Divergent Tribulation Cleansing Rugged Peace And Joy Support Groups

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.”

Ifs Kind May Found Women Christ History Trouble Abuse Injustice Kingdoms Indifference Why Not Misunderstanding Kingdom Of God

Book:A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk

Source: A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk

“Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ”

Way Mean Persons Helping Feelings Lying Choices Jesus Christ Sacrifice Jesus Christ Crosses Instinct Obedience Working It Lions Hanging On Dens Unbreakable

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.”

Giving Looks Long Hard Suffering Opportunity Christ Prayer Depth Finding Yourself End Times Gentleness Spend Time Meekness Long Suffering

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.”

Self Christ Principles Practice Determination Longing Surrender Willingness Joyful Earnest Abandonment Singles Unequivocal

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?”

Firsts Christ Dying Conclusion Distinction Logical

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.”

People Humans Has Beens Reason Seems Joy Christ Known Sweet Joyful Fragrance Human Reason

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

About the Author

Born: December 21, 1926
Died: June 15, 2015
Known for: Author
Quotes: 270

Books & Sources

Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's ControlRelated source material

Discipline: The Glad SurrenderRelated source material

Let Me Be a WomanRelated source material

The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of MasculinityRelated source material

A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily WalkRelated source material

Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and PurityRelated source material

On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted WorldRelated source material

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim ElliotRelated source material

Through Gates of SplendorRelated source material

God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your LifeRelated source material

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