Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?
Elisabeth ElliotTag: experience legalism
Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
Elisabeth ElliotTag: failure discipleship
He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things’.
Elisabeth ElliotTag: passion distraction
The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.
Elisabeth ElliotTag: emotion
Eve's daughters are as flowers and none can ever say they are through unfolding. And what man can predict the consummate end of such a life when its ultimate center is Sharon's Rose?
Elisabeth ElliotTag: women
Are we so childish (I do not say childlike) as to think that a God who could scheme a Jesus-plan would lead poor pilgrims into situations they could not bear?
Elisabeth ElliotTag: god-s-plans
Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.
Elisabeth ElliotTag: salvation discipleship
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
Elisabeth ElliotOne does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.
Elisabeth ElliotTag: salvation sanctification discipleship
A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks.
Elisabeth ElliotTag: complaining
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