Elisabeth Elliot Inspiring Quotes

Quotes about: Inspiring

• Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

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  Inspiring, Love Is, World

• Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

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  Inspiring, Christian, Inspiration

• I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

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  Inspiring, Desire, Energy

  Elisabeth Elliot (2010). “Through Gates of Splendor”, p.43, Hendrickson Publishers

• 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.

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  Inspiring, Christian, Doe

  Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.43, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

• It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

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  Inspiring, Journey, Stopping

  Elisabeth Elliot (1976). “Twelve Baskets of Crumbs”

• Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

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  Inspiring, Hands, Quiet Heart

• The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

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  Inspiring, Secret, Different

• The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

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  Inspiring, Pain, Suffering

• One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

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  Inspiring, Doe, Surrender

• Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

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  Inspiring, Ashes, Stories

• Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

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  Inspiring, Spiritual, Eye

• Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

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  Inspiring, Imagine, Arise

• God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.

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  Inspiring, Needs

• If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

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  Inspiring, Christian, Heart

• When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

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  Inspiring, I Love Him, Thinking

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.90, Revell

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

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  Inspiring, Mean, Loss

• You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

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  Inspiring, Christ, Loses

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

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  Inspiring, Strong, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.15, Revell

• The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

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  Inspiring, Devil, Three

• I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

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  Inspiring, Patience, Spiritual

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.89, Revell

• Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

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  Inspiring, Mean, Taught

• If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

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  Inspiring, Children, Struggle

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.91, Revell

• We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

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  Inspiring, Heart, Spiritual Disciplines

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.44, Revell

• Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

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  Inspiring, Prayer, Forget

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