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ELISABETH ELLIOT By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere. ELISABETH ELLIOT Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate ... JIM ELLIOT Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. ELISABETH ELLIOT Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that... ELISABETH ELLIOT ...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spiri... ELISABETH ELLIOT The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to un... ELISABETH ELLIOT When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw... ELISABETH ELLIOT George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p... ELISABETH ELLIOT I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t... ELISABETH ELLIOT The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled... ELISABETH ELLIOT The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-... ELISABETH ELLIOT Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. JIM ELLIOT When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual d... ELISABETH ELLIOT Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace i... ELISABETH ELLIOT If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to... ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t... ELISABETH ELLIOT Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie... ELISABETH ELLIOT I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot... AUSTIN ELLIOT There's no way he's supposed to even catch the ball, dribble it, spin and shoot a shot and make a sh... ELLIOT WASHINGTON Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. JIM ELLIOT This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What... JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ... JANE ELLIOT I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole... TUCKER ELLIOT I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ... ELISABETH ELLIOT [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu... ELISABETH ELLIOT Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are... JANE ELLIOT