“ This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas… Elisabeth Elliot
“ She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose people.' She had a vision of holy living. She would not deviate from that no matter h… Elisabeth Elliot
“ It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good. Elisabeth Elliot
“ The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time--His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding. Elisabeth Elliot
“ God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross. There i… Elisabeth Elliot
“ Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God did not protect His own Son. He will not necessarily protect us - not from… Elisabeth Elliot
“ Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion. Elisabeth Elliot
“ Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them… Elisabeth Elliot
“ The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the real living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God… Elisabeth Elliot
“ Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: 'Wherever you are, be all here. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. Elisabeth Elliot
“ And so it often is. Faith, prayer, and obedience are our requirements. We are not offered in exchange immunity and exemption from the world’s woes. What we are offered has to do with another world alt… Elisabeth Elliot
“ A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks. Elisabeth Elliot
“ What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answer--a sign of the love of the Lord. Elisabeth Elliot
