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101 " The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Let Me Be a Woman
102 " [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
103 " I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
104 " Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace it with another gift, but the receiver accepts His gifts with thanksgiving. This gift for this day. 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. "
105 " The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , The Mark of a Man
106 " If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd. "
107 " It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , These Strange Ashes
108 " She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them. "
109 " We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering? "
110 " Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him. "
111 " Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. "
112 " 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. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Keep a Quiet Heart
113 " Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy. "
114 " God has promised to supply our needs. What we don’t have now we don’t need now. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God
115 " Very often (nearly always, I'm afraid) when I come to church my feelings are uppermost in my mind. This is natural. We are human, we are "selves," and it takes no effort at all to feel. But worship is not feeling. 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. Finding myself scattered in all directions and in need of corralling like so many skittish calves, I kneel before the service begins and ask to be delivered from a vague preoccupation with myself and my own concerns and to be turned, during this short hour, to God. "
116 " You can never lose what you have offered to Christ. "
117 " If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory. "
118 " The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer. "
119 " Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first? "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
120 " He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things’. "