Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
Elisabeth ElliotSelf-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
Elisabeth ElliotHeaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
Elisabeth ElliotUntil the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
Elisabeth Elliot