Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) — Missionarin, Bestsellerautorin und Vortragsrednerin · Evangelikal / Protestantisch · USA
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) war eine US-amerikanische evangelikale Missionarin, Autorin und Radiomoderatorin, die in den 1950er-Jahren in Ecuador und danach über Jahrzehnte in den USA wirkte. Bekannt wurde sie durch ihren Dienst unter den Waodani nach der Tötung ihres Mannes sowie durch Schriften über unbedingten Gehorsam, Leidensbereitschaft und christliche Lebensführung. Heutigen Bibellesern vermittelt sie praktische Impulse zu Glaubenstreue und Trost in Krisen, während ihre rigide Theologie der Geschlechterrollen und ihr Einfluss auf die „Purity Culture“ umstritten bleiben.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Growth & Character, Guidance & God's Will, Discipleship, Meaning & Identity, Humility & Pride, Grief & Comfort, Wisdom & Understanding
Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.
Elisabeth Elliot
I don't need to know the way. I only need to trust the guide.
Elisabeth Elliot
Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
Elisabeth Elliot
A broken heart is an offering God can accept. He will never turn it away.
Elisabeth Elliot
When God withholds something, it is always out of grace.
Elisabeth Elliot
God does not write the music of our lives without a plan. But it is up to us to recognize the rhythm and not be grieved over the pauses.
Elisabeth Elliot
I have learned that we do not learn the deepest spiritual lessons when he fulfills our wishes in the end, but when he lets us wait and endures with us, full of love and patience, until we can honestly pray what he taught his disciples: Your will be done.
Elisabeth Elliot
[Spiritual strongholds] begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a “power base for the enemy,” that is, a stronghold.
Elisabeth Elliot
A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man has to seek Him to find her!
Elisabeth Elliot
The longing for human love is powerful; but there is one more powerful still. It is the love of God.
Elisabeth Elliot
The Holy Spirit was given to lead us into all truth, but he does this gradually, not all at once.
Elisabeth Elliot
Fulfillment is not a goal one can pursue but always a by-product of sacrifice.
Elisabeth Elliot
To be a follower of the Crucified Christ means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
Elisabeth Elliot
To the world at large this was a sad waste of five young lives. But God has His plan and purpose in all things… The prayers of the widows themselves are for the Aucas. We look forward to the day when these savages will join us in Christian praise. Plans were promptly formulated for continuing the work of the martyrs.
Elisabeth Elliot
While I disparage the exercise of “building one’s self-esteem” I indulge in it every time I imagine myself free from the defects I perceive in someone else.
Elisabeth Elliot
Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.
Elisabeth Elliot
From the greatest delights this earth can give, we still come back to you unsatisfied.
Elisabeth Elliot
Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
Elisabeth Elliot
The greater the possibilities for good to unfold, the greater also the possibilities for evil to unfold.
Elisabeth Elliot
One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.
Elisabeth Elliot
We must not let ourselves be robbed of any work we are certain God wants done, and which is for His honor.
Elisabeth Elliot
A steadfast heart does not fall prey to fickleness.
Elisabeth Elliot
Believing prayer must govern the whole life of a Christian.
Elisabeth Elliot
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
Elisabeth Elliot
Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling – feelings don’t help much when you’re in the lions’ den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of 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
It is Christ who is to be exalted, not our feelings. We will know Him by obedience, not by emotions. Our love will be shown by obedience, not by how good we feel about God at a given moment. “And love means following the commands of God.” “Do you love Me?” Jesus asked Peter. “Feed My lambs.” He was not asking, “How do you feel about Me?” for love is not a feeling. He was asking for action.
Elisabeth Elliot
In space, astronauts experience the misery of having no reference point, no force that draws them to the center. Where there is no “moral gravity” – that is, no force that draws us to the center – there is spiritual weightlessness. We float on feelings that will carry us where we were never meant to go; we bubble with emotional experiences that we often take for spiritual ones; and we are puffed up with pride. Instead of seriousness, there is foolishness. Instead of gravity, flippancy. Sentimentality takes the place of theology. Our reference point will never serve to keep our feet on solid rock. Our reference point, until we answer God’s call, is merely ourselves. We cannot possibly tell which end is up.
Elisabeth Elliot
My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.
Elisabeth Elliot
“Is discipline the same as punishment?” a young woman asked me. She was troubled by the idea of God wanting to “get even.” I gave her 1 Corinthians 11:32 (NEB) “When…we do fall under the Lord’s judgment, He is disciplining us, to save us from being condemned with the rest of the world.” God’s “punishment” of His children is never retribution, but rather correction. We know that we are indeed His beloved sons, sharing in the discipline that all sons share – for a high purpose, namely that we may some day share in His holiness, “attain life.”
Elisabeth Elliot
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