8 Quotes by Valerie Elliot Shepard

If I could express my one hope for compiling this book, my prayer is that these entries of theirs would call us to search faithfully for God in His Word. And upon discovering His unchanging, faithful, merciful, and loving character, I pray we would be more fully moved in obedience to Him that we too might leave a lasting legacy of faith as my parents did.

The words that had already begin to flow into this private little notebook of hers--though punctuated, of course, with the typical cares and crises of any young woman’s life—would never shift from this due-north orientation. God was first; God was supreme; God was all.

Let’s not pretend that my father was above the temptation. Yet, in response to it, he did what all godly men (and women) must do when accosted by strong, unholy thoughts. He called them out, considered it war, and made impassioned pleas that God would be his strength to endure.

I have sought slowly the will of God, and the slowness has brought strength into the conviction of it, and joy in the realization of it. Jim Elliot

Theirs was a deep and delighted love, something they handled with extraordinary sacredness, even as it stretched and surprised them in ways they never saw coming--spiritually and beyond.

Jim and Betty modeled--not perfectly, but persistently--the way God intends us to handle love, steward it, and keep it continually under His guidance.

The Lord has a certain slow dignity about His movings which constantly shames my fretting unbelief. Jim Elliot

When you hear my mother at twenty-two saying she feels ‘useless’ and ‘fearful’ and ‘ashamed,’ recall what she went on to become in life by God’s grace and power. Think what our Father is capable of doing, encouraging you to press into Him, as she did, for His glory.