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121 " Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Let Me Be a Woman
122 " The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time--His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
123 " Faith is a decision.It is not a deduction from the facts around us. We would not look at the world of today and logically conclude that God loves us. It doesn't always look as though He does.Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lion's den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things always work. It is an act of the 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 , Secure in the Everlasting Arms
124 " The women of the Band were learning that if the Lord of Glory took a towel and knelt on the floor to wash the dusty feet of His disciples, then no work, even the relentless and often messy routine of caring for squalling babies, is demeaning. To offer it up to the Lord of Glory transforms it into a holy task. "
125 " Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
126 " Are we so childish (I do not say childlike) as to think that a God who could scheme a Jesus-plan would lead poor pilgrims into situations they could not bear? "
127 " We are always held in the love of God. We are never wholly at the mercy of other people - they are only “second causes,” and no matter how many second or third or fiftieth causes seem to be in control of what happens to us, it is God who is in charge, He who holds the keys, He who casts the lot finally into the lap. Trusting Him, then, requires that I leave some things to be decided by others. I must learn to relinquish the control I might wield over somebody else if the decision properly belongs to him. I must resist my urge to manipulate him, needle and prod and pester until he capitulates. I must trust God in him, trust God to do for both of us better than I know. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
128 " The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God. But, as in the case of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, the sacrifice itself is not always finally required. What is required is obedience. "
129 " The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. "
130 " If the life of a man or woman on earth is to bear the fragrance of heaven the winds of God must blow on that life, winds not always balmy from the south, but fierce winds from the north that chill the very marrow. "
131 " A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks. "
132 " What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answer--a sign of the love of the Lord. "
133 " She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose people.' She had a vision of holy living. She would not deviate from that no matter how well-established, rational, and practical the ways of older missions seemed to be. "
134 " --so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts... "
135 " What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, "Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be -- let me be a woman? "
136 " The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown," the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale . . . "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Discipline: The Glad Surrender
137 " The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls--their looks, their clothes, their social life--do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few. "
138 " Nu este nechibzuit cel ce renunta la ceea ce nu poate pastra pentru a castiga ceea ce nu poate pierde. "
139 " He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Keep a Quiet Heart
140 " Lord, break the chains that hold me to myself; free me to be Your happy slave—that is, to be the happy foot washer of anyone today who needs his feet washed, his supper cooked, his faults overlooked, his work commended, his failure forgiven, his griefs consoled or his button sewed on. Let me not imagine that my love for You is very great if I am unwilling to do for a human being something very small. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , A Lamp for My Feet