Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addressed, taken possession of, known, acted upon, I have heard the Master. I put myself gladly, fully, and forever at His disposal, and to whatever He says my answer is yes.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

— Elisabeth Elliot

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

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot

— Elisabeth Elliot

Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-consciousness" of the promise given her, "He Goethe before.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

— Elisabeth Elliot