Frases de Elisabeth Elliot

„O fato de eu ser uma mulher não me faz um tipo diferente de cristão, mas o fato de eu ser cristã faz-me um tipo diferente de mulher.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„Onde está a sua segurança? Deus é seu refúgio, seu esconderijo, sua fortaleza, seu pastor, seu conselheiro, seu amigo, seu redentor, seu salvador, seu guia? Se Ele é, você não precisa procurar mais por segurança.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot, livro Through Gates of Splendor

Fonte: Through Gates of Splendor

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

—  Elisabeth Elliot

Fonte: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

„The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

Fonte: Let Me be a Woman

„God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

„Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

Fonte: These Strange Ashes

„He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

Fonte: The Journals of Jim Elliot

„To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

Fonte: These Strange Ashes

„Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you“

—  Elisabeth Elliot

Fonte: Keep a Quiet Heart