35 Most Famous Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Last updated on January 4th, 2024 at 10:16 am
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Elisabeth Elliot was an American Christian writer and speaker. Jim Elliot, her first husband, was assassinated in 1956 while seeking to contact the Auca people of eastern Ecuador (today known as Huaorani). Later, as a missionary in South America, she spent two years living among the people who had murdered her husband before returning to the United States and writing over 20 Christian books.
Elisabeth was still writing and speaking about her missionary work and the Lord till the time she died. Many amazing quotes have been attributed to her during her life. Here are the best Elisabeth Elliot quotes. Check out!
Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: A CHANCE TO DIE: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF AMY CARMICHAEL
“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
SOURCE: LET ME BE A WOMAN
“Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: LET ME BE A WOMAN
“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
SOURCE: LET ME BE A WOMAN
“Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought – that is, with discipline.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: LET ME BE A WOMAN
SOURCE: LET ME BE A WOMAN
“The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: LET ME BE A WOMAN
“Insistence that both lead means there won’t be any dance.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: LET ME BE A WOMAN
“She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: LET ME BE A WOMAN
“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
SOURCE: LET ME BE A WOMAN
“A wedding is a celebration of marriage, of an institution ordained by God at the creation of man, to be entered into with solemnity as well as with joy.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: LET ME BE A WOMAN
SOURCE: THROUGH GATES OF SPLENDOR
“Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: THESE STRANGE ASHES
“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.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: THESE STRANGE ASHES
“It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: THESE STRANGE ASHES
“Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: KEEP A QUIET HEART
“The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: KEEP A QUIET HEART
SOURCE: KEEP A QUIET HEART
“You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: KEEP A QUIET HEART
“By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: PASSION AND PURITY
“If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: PASSION AND PURITY
“Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn’t reciprocate, and end up in confusion.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: PASSION AND PURITY
“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: PASSION AND PURITY
SOURCE: PASSION AND PURITY
“If He is God, He is still in charge.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: PASSION AND PURITY
“Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: THE MARK OF A MAN
“The question is simply,’Who is your master?’Once that’s settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: THE MARK OF A MAN
“Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY: THE LIFE AND TESTAMENT OF JIM ELLIOT
“Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY: THE LIFE AND TESTAMENT OF JIM ELLIOT
SOURCE: SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY: THE LIFE AND TESTAMENT OF JIM ELLIOT
“A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY: THE LIFE AND TESTAMENT OF JIM ELLIOT
“He makes his ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things’.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY: THE LIFE AND TESTAMENT OF JIM ELLIOT
“Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY: THE LIFE AND TESTAMENT OF JIM ELLIOT
“The man whose eye is single for the glory of another can be trusted.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY: THE LIFE AND TESTAMENT OF JIM ELLIOT
“The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.”
ELISABETH ELLIOT
SOURCE: SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY: THE LIFE AND TESTAMENT OF JIM ELLIOT
Elisabeth Elliot’s life was marked by one of the greatest acts of forgiveness when she and Rachel Saint moved in two years later with the tribe that had cruelly speared her husband and four others to death.
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