Quotes from Elisabeth Elliot

It is not the level of our spirituality that we can depend on. It is God and nothing less than God, for the work is God's and the call is God's and everything is summoned by Him and to His purposes, the whole scene, the whole mess, the whole package—our bravery and our cowardice, our love and our selfishness, our strengths and our weaknesses.

Ele nos diz o que devemos fazer e nós encontramos nossa felicidade em fazê-lo. Não encontraremos a felicidade em nenhum outro lugar. Não a encontraremos fazendo apenas o que queremos fazer e não fazendo o que não queremos fazer. Essa é a ideia popular do que é a liberdade, mas isso não funciona. A liberdade reside no cumprimento das regras. A alegria também está lá.

As we approached Villano we talked over the problem of keeping the guides quiet. We decided that we would have to impress on them the danger to them personally if word of the location of the Aucas got around and if, as a result, there were attacks on the Aucas by the Quichuas or others, followed by Auca reprisal raids.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

Deus nunca nos decepcionará. Ele nos ama e tem apenas um propósito para nós: a santidade, que no reino dele equivale à alegria.

Everyone who was in on our plan was again thrilled by the news. To some of us the most significant thing was not the information gained but the fact that after so much fruitless searching we had located the first group of Aucas and then in a couple of weeks had stumbled over the other group. It seemed to mean that now was the Lord's time to do something about them. Again we agreed to pray about the matter and compare notes further, after the whole episode had a chance to sink in.

Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.

Thus, one of the obstacles that lay in the path of the missionaries was partly overcome. A presentation of gifts seemed the obvious next step. Perhaps a carefully-planned, regular program of gift-drops, made over a period of time, would show the Indians that the intentions of these white men were friendly, and the repetition would gradually convince them.

And one more thing: I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

But finally we were sure the line was free . . . and there was our messenger of good will, love, and faith, 2,000 feet below on the sandbar. In a sense we had delivered the first Gospel-message-by-sign-language to a people who were a quarter of a mile away vertically, fifty miles horizontally, and continents and wide seas away psychologically.

Some day, even you will see that there's sense in this. Your suffering is never for nothing.

So if you get all hung up, thinking now is this thing from God or is it from Satan? Is this the voice of God or the voice of Satan? Stop worrying about it. You don't really need to sort that out because here's a case where the thorn was in a sense given by God as a messenger of Satan.

But when the answer is no, then we know that God has something better at stake. Far greater things are at stake. There is another level, another kingdom, an invisible kingdom which you and I cannot see now but toward which we move and to which we belong.

I reminded Jim of what we both knew it might mean if he went. "Well, if that's the way God wants it to be," was his calm reply. "I'm ready to die for the salvation of the Aucas." While still a student in college Jim had written: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

I've many a cross to take up now, And many left behind; But present troubles move me not, Nor shake my quiet mind. And what may be to-morrow's cross I never seek to find; My Father says, "Leave that to me, And keep a quiet mind." Anonymous

intercession is the highest expression of love - it is pure giving, teach me such love dear Lord

If in fact I do believe these great things we say and sing together, then those little things (and what is not little by comparison?)

May God help us to judge ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through His poverty, be made rich. "Lord, God, speak to my own heart and give me to know Thy Holy will and the joy of walking in it. Amen.

I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I did not grieve. I did--most sorely. But peace of that sort the world cannot give comes, not by the removal of suffering, but in another way--through acceptance.

Maturidade é a capacidade de levar a questão não respondida com fé, mantendo-se fiel à Palavra pela qual vivemos.

She was awed by the privilege. She accepted the disciplines.

He Himself has been praying for me all along: "He is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them" (Heb. 7:25, NIV).

The Bible's answers are never to be separated from the God of the Bible.

He has promised that our suffering will one day turn into glory if we'll respond to it in faith and obedience.