“ The deepest things that I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering. And out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come the deepest things that I know about God. Elisabeth Elliot
“ The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and bey… Elisabeth Elliot
“ Out of suffering comes holiness- in these forms: comfort, consolation, the fellowship of Christ's suffering, salvation, strength, fortitude, endurance. This is what is meant by redemptive suffering. T… Elisabeth Elliot
“ It’s only in the cross that we can begin to harmonize this seeming contradiction between suffering and love. Elisabeth Elliot
“ What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need. Elisabeth Elliot
“ We are not asked to SEE, said Amy. Why need we when we KNOW? We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. It is an irreparable loss, but is it fai… Elisabeth Elliot
“ I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory making out and sleeping around, we forfeit something we cannot well do without… Elisabeth Elliot
“ Are we so childish (I do not say childlike) as to think that a God who could scheme a Jesus-plan would lead poor pilgrims into situations they could not bear? Elisabeth Elliot
“ But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom. Elisabeth Elliot
“ 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. Elisabeth Elliot
“ Very often (nearly always, I'm afraid) when I come to church my feelings are uppermost in my mind. This is natural. We are human, we are selves, and it takes no effort at all to feel. But worship is n… Elisabeth Elliot
“ There is a popular notion about prayer that assumes that the thing asked for ought to be the object of faith—Lord, give me this or that, wherefore this and that become the realities. No. The Bible sta… Elisabeth Elliot
“ The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls--their looks, their clothes, their social life--do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who… Elisabeth Elliot
“ Our loneliness cannot always be fixed, but it can always be accepted as the very will of God for now, and that turns into something beautiful. Perhaps it is like the field wherein lies the valuable tr… Elisabeth Elliot
“ He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency. Elisabeth Elliot
“ Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline. Elisabeth Elliot
