We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction. Elisabeth Elliot More Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot More Quotes From Elisabeth Elliot Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else! Elisabeth Elliot loneliness boys jesus It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life. Elisabeth Elliot being-thankful habit complaining If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine! Elisabeth Elliot would-be life-is hands 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 unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true. Elisabeth Elliot discipline opposites heart God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now. Elisabeth Elliot inspiring needs Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold. Elisabeth Elliot spiritual attitude enemy This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness. Elisabeth Elliot offering somewhere-else jobs A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience. Elisabeth Elliot obedience whole struggle The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger. Elisabeth Elliot pain suffering inspiring What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing. Elisabeth Elliot ought feels 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 offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes. Elisabeth Elliot maturity letting-go mean There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for. Elisabeth Elliot things-worth-dying-for life-changing dying One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Elisabeth Elliot surrender doe inspiring If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing. Elisabeth Elliot giving order father 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. Elisabeth Elliot stopping journey inspiring I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him. Elisabeth Elliot ocean prayer christian One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy. Elisabeth Elliot agendas yesterday today To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God. Elisabeth Elliot godly real men The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action. They have no authority. A life lived in God is not lived on the plane of the feelings, but of the will. In Scripture the heart is the will - the man himself, the spring of all action, the ruling power bestowed on him by his Creator, capable of choosing and acting. Elisabeth Elliot heart spring men I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done. Elisabeth Elliot spiritual patience inspiring
