306 Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

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.

Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the “Rock-counsciousness” of the promise given her, “He goeth before.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

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 faith at all if it is ‘hard to trust’ when things are entirely bewildering?

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn’t reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.