Quotes from Elisabeth Elliot

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

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

A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'

One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.