Top 250 Elisabeth Elliot Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

2. “Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.”

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3. “You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.”

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4. “The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.”

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5. “It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.”

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6. “When you don’t know what to do, do the thing in front of you.”

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7. “God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.”

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8. “When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”

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9. “God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.”

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10. “God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.”

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11. “I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.”

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14. “Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ’ashes.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “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!”

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17. “Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”

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18. “It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.”

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19. “I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”

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20. “If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!”

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23. “We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.”

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24. “Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.”

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25. “No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.”

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26. “It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.”

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27. “Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.”

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28. “Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you.”

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29. “Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ’s sake. Amen.”

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30. “Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard.”

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31. “A grandmother’s special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.”

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32. “A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.”

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33. “Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.”

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34. “No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.”

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35. “The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.”

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36. “Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.”

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37. “For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’”

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38. “You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.”

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39. “New Year’s Day is a good time to fix one’s eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.”

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40. “Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.”

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41. “Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.”

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42. “We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”

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43. “The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?”

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44. “The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”

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45. “To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.”

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46. “By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.”

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47. “You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.”

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48. “Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.”

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49. “The heart set to do the Father’s will, need never fear defeat.”

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50. “The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. ‘If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,’ Jesus said, ’he will find his true self.”

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