Elisabeth Elliot
The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?Collection: Father
If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.Collection: Letting Go
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim ElliotCollection: Death
A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.Collection: Heart
In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.Collection: Mean
The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.Collection: Jesus
The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.Collection: Inspiring
Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of work itself, days on which we celebrate work by declaring our freedom. In a manner of speaking we announce that on this one day we may rest from our work, and without pressure or guilt, we may be glad. A holiday is a holy day-meant for rejoicing in God.Collection: Christmas
If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.Collection: Fathers Day
There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.Collection: Believe
Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.Collection: Father
We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?Collection: Inspiration
The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.Collection: Answers
She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.Collection: Disobeying
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.Collection: Heart
Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.Collection: Lonely
There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.Collection: Feelings
When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.Collection: Taken
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.Collection: Sex
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.Collection: Inspiring
Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.Collection: Faith
The 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.Collection: Husband
Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach their children to love God they must show their love for Him by loving each other and loving the children.Collection: Children
One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. 'Let me have them,' said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker...had said: 'If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.'Collection: Morning
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Son
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.Collection: Inspiring
Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing not to have what God is not willing to give. Furthermore, faith does not insist upon an explanation. It is enough to know His promises to give what is good-he knows so much more about us than we do.Collection: Faith
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.Collection: Lying
I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Obedience
I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Lying
A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.Collection: Reflection
If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!Collection: Hands
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?'Collection: Christian
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.Collection: Father
The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life.Collection: Stars
Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure.Collection: Stupid
There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.Collection: Life Changing
It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.Collection: Sacrifice
If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.Collection: Letting Go
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.Collection: Inspiring
Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.Collection: Inspiring
If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.Collection: Needs
By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.Collection: Inspiring
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.Collection: Inspiring
Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ's sake. Amen.Collection: Heart
God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.Collection: Inspiring