Top 250 Elisabeth Elliot Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

52. “God’s command ‘Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature’ was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

53. “Loneliness is a required course for leadership.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

54. “One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

55. “Do the next thing.” I don’t know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety than that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom. Do the next thing. That has gotten me through more agonies than anything else I could recommend.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

56. “Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

57. “The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

58. “Whatever is in the cup that God is offering to me, whether it be pain and sorrow and suffering and grief along with the many more joys, I’m willing to take it because I trust Him.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

59. “The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

60. “A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

61. “God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

62. “We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

63. “Choices will continually be necessary and – let us not forget – possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

64. “The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

65. “Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

66. “Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

67. “Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

68. “The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

69. “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.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

70. “Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

71. “Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

72. “Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

73. “The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

74. “Where reasons are given, we don’t need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

75. “The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

76. “The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

77. “And I’ve come to see that it’s through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we’ll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He’s in charge. He has a loving purpose. And He can transform something terrible into something wonderful. Suffering is never for nothing.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

78. “In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

79. “Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit’s prayer.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

80. “Sometimes when we are called to obey, the fear does not subside and we are expected to move against the fear. One must choose to do it afraid.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

81. “I’m convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

82. “Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

83. “The preoccupations of young women-their looks, their clothes, their social life-don’t seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every generation there are a few that make others choices.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

84. “If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

85. “Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

86. “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

87. “Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?”

— Elisabeth Elliot

88. “When the will of God crosses the will of man, somebody has to die.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

89. “To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

90. “A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

91. “True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

92. “In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

93. “Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

94. “Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

95. “If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

96. “A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

97. “Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

98. “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

99. “Action that is clearly right needs no justification.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

100. “There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.”

— Elisabeth Elliot