From Elisabeth Elliot (1926 – 2015)

From Elisabeth Elliot
(1926 – 2015)
Post May 27 2025
There is nothing worth living for—unless it is worth dying for!

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God never withholds from His child, that which His love and wisdom call good. God’s refusals are always merciful. They are “severe mercies” at times—but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire—except to give us something better.

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

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A wife, if she is very generous—may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change—and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much.

She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent—and both of them will be happy.

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God gives all.
God requires all.

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

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

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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now—we don’t need now. A submissive heart is content with what God gives. Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

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The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God—or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

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A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire—has to go into the process of conforming us to the image of Christ.

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The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else—would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life and the greater peace.

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God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart—if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.

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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners!