We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
Elisabeth ElliotGod has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.
Elisabeth ElliotThe 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 ElliotThere is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.
Elisabeth ElliotLoneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others.
Elisabeth Elliot