{"author":"Elisabeth Elliot","author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot","total_quotes":96,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["christian-living"],"id":4404,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart’s truth.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["affections","christ","christian","god","inspirational","jesus","lord","lordship","love","will"],"id":8905,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, 'Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be -- let me be a woman?","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["feminism","womanhood"],"id":10990,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory '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.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["christianity","purity"],"id":22319,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["education","enthusiasm","humility"],"id":24368,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["discipline","eternity","holiness","temporal"],"id":39591,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"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?","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["christian-living","faith"],"id":51581,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"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.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["christiann","inspirational","prayer","selfish","serve","unselfish"],"id":53712,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["age","aging","christian","god","inspirational","jesus","old","stages","youth"],"id":63418,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the centre of the silent Word.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["calling","discipline","holiness"],"id":64197,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":96,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}