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81 " 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
82 " 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 , Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
83 " 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. "
84 " 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. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Let Me Be a Woman
85 " Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity
86 " Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself. "
87 " Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , These Strange Ashes
88 " 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. "
89 " He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador "
― Elisabeth Elliot , The Journals of Jim Elliot
90 " To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact. "
91 " 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. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Secure in the Everlasting Arms
92 " 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. "
93 " The way you keep your house, the way you organize 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. "
94 " 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. "
95 " The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow. "
96 " God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, "If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross." There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, "God has no right to do this to five men unless... "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Through Gates of Splendor
97 " I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for. "
98 " Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
99 " The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Keep a Quiet Heart
100 " Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline. "