“ Thanksgiving is a spiritual exercise, necessary to the building of a healthy soul. It takes us out of the stuffiness of ourselves into the fresh breeze and sunlight of the will of God. Elisabeth Elliot
“ Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace it with another gift, but the receiver accepts His gifts with thanksgiving. This gift for this day. The… Elisabeth Elliot
“ He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love. Elisabeth Elliot
“ God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeli… Elisabeth Elliot
“ What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents 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? Elisabeth Elliot
“ The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. Elisabeth Elliot
“ Lord, where there are interruption, it seems that the disposal of the time I had planned so well have slipped out of my hands. Help me then to remember that it has not slipped out of Yours. In Your ha… Elisabeth Elliot
“ Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows. Elisabeth Elliot
“ I must teach you to long for something better...For my uncontrollable longings for this man, Lord --- Your strength. Elisabeth Elliot
“ Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself. Elisabeth Elliot
“ But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up. Elisabeth Elliot
“ A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the image is marred, but it is a divine image nonetheless, capable of redemption and therefore to be held in… Elisabeth Elliot
“ He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory. Elisabeth Elliot
“ Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him. Elisabeth Elliot
“ Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth! Elisabeth Elliot
“ If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily ours but only ours to… Elisabeth Elliot
“ If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. Elisabeth Elliot
