306 Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

There is, in fact, no redemptive work done anywhere without suffering.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things – received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.

God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God’s refusals are always merciful – “severe mercies” at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Insistence that both lead means there won’t be any dance.

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?

If he had loved her he would have pursued her.

Sometimes when we are called to obey, the fear does not subside and we are expected to move against the fear. One must choose to do it afraid.

Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men.