Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

Elisabeth Elliot

Stichwörter: materialism busyness



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God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.

Elisabeth Elliot

Stichwörter: prayer



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We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Elisabeth Elliot

Stichwörter: religion pride fundamentalism



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You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

Elisabeth Elliot


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Money holds terrible power when it is loved

Elisabeth Elliot

Stichwörter: money christianity christian-living



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Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

Elisabeth Elliot

Stichwörter: christianity suffering the-cross elisabeth-elliot these-strange-ashes



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The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

Elisabeth Elliot

Stichwörter: let-me-be-a-woman



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The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

Elisabeth Elliot


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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.

Elisabeth Elliot

Stichwörter: friends counsel elisabeth-elliot disciplined-christian



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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God did not protect His own Son. He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.

Elisabeth Elliot

Stichwörter: suffering



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