306 Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

God’s command ‘Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature’ was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.

What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

Action that is clearly right needs no justification.

There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.