Turn your loneliness into solitude, and your solitude into prayer.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from The Path of Loneliness
Elisabeth Elliot
The Crown Jesus Wore – Elisabeth Elliot
The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from The Path of Loneliness
A Place of Difficulty and Hardship – Elisabeth Elliot
This is the very place meant by God to turn your eyes to Him.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
What Is Faith? – Elisabeth Elliot
Faith is a decision. It is not a deduction from the facts around us. We would not look at the world of today and logically conclude that God loves us. It doesn’t always look as though He does. Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling—feelings don’t help much when you’re in the lion’s den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy things always work. It is an act of the will, a choice based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from Secure in the Everlasting Arms, p94
My Task is to Love God – Elisabeth Elliot
My task is to love God, to make God loved, and to lay down my life to these ends.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Faith’s Most Severe Tests – Elisabeth Elliot
Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Pray for Guidance vs Obedience – Elisabeth Elliot
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the things that lie before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person’s seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tell you to do now, and, depend on it, you will be shown what to do next.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from Quest for Love
Need Of Christ – Elizabeth Elliot
The older I get, the more I am aware of my desperate need of Christ Himself. I want to listen and learn and glorify Him.
– Elizabeth Elliot –
A Single Eye for the Glory of God – Elisabeth Elliot
[Amy Carmichael’s] great longing was to have a “single eye” for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.
– Elisabeth Elliot –