306 Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then and ‘be safe’?” That’s the only alternative, really. But locking ourselves up and never facing another person won’t fix what’s really going on in our souls.

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.

It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God.

A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright... resist the temptation to trifle with other people’s feelings.

Matters of the heart still can never put us beyond His love and redemption.

If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.