Elisabeth Elliot

"If our calling is to be mothers, let's be mothers with all our hearts-gladly, simply, and humbly."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"New Year’s Day is a good time to fix one’s eyes on the only way to begin the year as we should: in humility."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between his will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer."

- Elisabeth Elliot

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

- Elisabeth Elliot

"If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road - abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big.'"

- Elisabeth Elliot

"Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"Don’t dig up in frustration what you planted in faith."

- Elisabeth Elliot

""Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between his will and its accomplishment on earth.""

- Elisabeth Elliot

"For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, “Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?”"

- Elisabeth Elliot