Wisdom from Elisabeth Elliot: 10 quotes to make you think

Elisabeth Elliot ElisabethElliot.org

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

2. "The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman."

3. "One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there."

4. "If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes."

5. "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."

6. "The way you keep your house, the way you organise your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul."

7. "Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline."

8. "To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss."

9. "He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things'."

10. "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?"

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