Quotes from Elisabeth Elliot
Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.
- Elisabeth Elliot
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
- Elisabeth Elliot
It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.
- Elisabeth Elliot
There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
- Elisabeth Elliot
True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.
- Elisabeth Elliot
There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.
- Elisabeth Elliot
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
- Elisabeth Elliot