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. Elisabeth Elliot More Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot More Quotes From Elisabeth Elliot 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. Elisabeth Elliot timing wise waiting 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 still owns tomorrow. Elisabeth Elliot one-day-at-a-time real today Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me. Elisabeth Elliot said needs Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain. Elisabeth Elliot stunning vain tests A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires. Elisabeth Elliot gentleman men 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. Elisabeth Elliot obedience holy worthy But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God. Elisabeth Elliot passion-and-purity silent feels A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace. Elisabeth Elliot arms waiting believe Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. Elisabeth Elliot unanswered-questions waiting heart Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. Elisabeth Elliot inspiring love-is world I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it. Elisabeth Elliot energy desire inspiring The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world. Elisabeth Elliot principles add son 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 anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process. Elisabeth Elliot hard-times fire son The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life. Elisabeth Elliot stars names numbers We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others. Elisabeth Elliot ashes broken suffering A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace. Elisabeth Elliot grace heart giving Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands. Elisabeth Elliot patience inspirational life No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners. Elisabeth Elliot two long commitment 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 Elisabeth Elliot forever heart long The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman. Elisabeth Elliot christian doe inspiring
