Quotes from Elisabeth Elliot

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot

New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.

It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.