Home / Authors / Elisabeth Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Author

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.

Filter quotes by topic

All Ifs Inspiring Giving Heart Christian Christ Want Doe Men Passion And Purity Given Suffering Discipline Jesus Knows Needs Hands May Way Prayer

Famous Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

“Prayer is a law of the universe. As God has ordained that certain physical laws should govern the law of this universe, so He has ordained the spiritual law. Books simply will not stay put on the table without the operation of gravity - although God could cause them, by divine fiat, to stay. Certain things simply will not happen without the operation of prayer, although God could cause them, by divine fiat, to happen. The Bible is full o examples of people doing what they could do and asking God to do what they couldn't do. In other words, the pattern given to us is both to work and pray.”

Christian Prayer Bible

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.”

Ifs Want Giving Bigs Christian Asks Prayer Plans Praying Ocean Give Me Want Me He Wants 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

“Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.”

Happens Prayer Forget Inspiring Things Happen

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.”

Heart Prayer Solitude Filled God Love Emptiness Agendas Leisure

Book:Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God

Source: Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God

“Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.”

Source: A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living

“Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.”

Prayer Cold Aim Suitors

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.”

Ifs Way Said Different Mother Prayer Sin Silence Cutting Holy Quiet Charity Different Ways Nurse Discretion Sinning Being Quiet

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.”

Happens Earth Spirit Given Prayer Plans Holy Lays Privilege Things Happen Accomplishment Holy Spirit Links Amazing Things God's Plan

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.”

Said Problem Christian Prayer Christian Inspirational Make Sense Temples Our Relationship Theological

Book:God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life

Source: God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life

“For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'”

Giving Made Today Christian Prayer Lord Morning Habit Offers Give Me Christian Inspirational Morning Prayer

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

“What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.”

Needs Giving Prayer Answers Sufficient Our Prayers

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

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

Similar Authors

Dwight L. MoodyBrowse related quotes
Charles SpurgeonBrowse related quotes
Billy GrahamBrowse related quotes
Aiden Wilson TozerBrowse related quotes
Marilyn MonroeBrowse related quotes
Oswald ChambersBrowse related quotes
Dietrich BonhoefferBrowse related quotes
J. C. RyleBrowse related quotes
John PiperBrowse related quotes
Joyce MeyerBrowse related quotes