Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

~ Elisabeth Elliot

He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

~ Elisabeth Elliot