306 Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot

The Indians had become people to me – they were no longer my “field.” While I had once declared them to be my equals, I now regarded myself as theirs. Instead of saying, “Oh, you are as good as I – let me help you,” I now said, “I am as poor as you. God help us all.

A woman ought to be honest with a man who shows interest in her.

The Bible doesn’t explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.

Lord, break the chains that hold me to myself; free me to be Your happy slave – that is, to be the happy foot washer of anyone today who needs his feet washed, his supper cooked, his faults overlooked, his work commended, his failure forgiven, his griefs consoled or his button sewed on. Let me not imagine that my love for You is very great if I am unwilling to do for a human being something very small.

The cross means suffering. Suffering’s meaning is to be learned through the cross.

Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. ‘Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.’ Pr 3:7,8.

Money holds terrible power when it is loved.

All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought – that is, with discipline.