In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
Elisabeth ElliotThe world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
Elisabeth ElliotAll our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.
Elisabeth ElliotA prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
Elisabeth ElliotDoes it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.
Elisabeth Elliot