Quotes from Elisabeth Elliot

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God's.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

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.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.

Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.

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

Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.

Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard

God gives all God asks all

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

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

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, "let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?

The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.