“Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.”
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Famous Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.”
“Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.”
“The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.”
“You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.”
Source: Let Me Be a Woman
Source: Through Gates of Splendor
“Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.”
Source: Twelve Baskets of Crumbs
“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”
Source: 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
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”
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.”
“The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.”
Source: The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity
“If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.”
“Money holds terrible power when it is loved”
Source: A Path Through Suffering
“We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves”
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.”
“God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.”
Source: Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God