Elisabeth Elliot

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born

December 21, 1926 in Belgium

gender

female

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http://www.elisabethelliot.org

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Religion & Spirituality, Parenting & Families

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Amy Carmichael

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From the Author's Web Site: My parents were missionaries in Belgium where I was born. When I was a few months old, we came to the U.S. and lived in Germantown, not far from Philadelphia, where my father became an editor of the Sunday School Times. Some of my contemporaries may remember the publication which was used by hundreds of churches for their weekly unified Sunday School teaching materials.

Our family continued to live in Philadelphia and then in New Jersey until I left home to attend Wheaton College. By that time, the family had increased to four brothers and one sister. My studies in classical Greek would one day enable me to work in the area of unwritten languages to develop a form of writing.

A year after I went to Ecuador, Jim E...more From the Author's Web Site: My parents were missionaries in Belgium where I was born. When I was a few months old, we came to the U.S. and lived in Germantown, not far from Philadelphia, where my father became an editor of the Sunday School Times. Some of my contemporaries may remember the publication which was used by hundreds of churches for their weekly unified Sunday School teaching materials.

Our family continued to live in Philadelphia and then in New Jersey until I left home to attend Wheaton College. By that time, the family had increased to four brothers and one sister. My studies in classical Greek would one day enable me to work in the area of unwritten languages to develop a form of writing.

A year after I went to Ecuador, Jim Elliot, whom I had met at Wheaton, also entered tribal areas with the Quichua Indians. In nineteen fifty three we were married in the city of Quito and continued our work together. Jim had always hoped to have the opportunity to enter the territory of an unreached tribe. The Aucas were in that category -- a fierce group whom no one had succeeded in meeting without being killed. After the discovery of their whereabouts, Jim and four other missionaries entered Auca territory. After a friendly contact with three of the tribe, they were speared to death.

Our daughter Valerie was 10 months old when Jim was killed. I continued working with the Quichua Indians when, through a remarkable providence, I met two Auca women who lived with me for one year. They were the key to my going in to live with the tribe that had killed the five missionaries. I remained there for two years.

After having worked for two years with the Aucas, I returned to the Quichua work and remained there until 1963 when Valerie and I returned to the U.S.

Since then, my life has been one of writing and speaking. It also included, in 1969, a marriage to Addison Leitch, professor of theology at Gordon Conwell Seminary in Massachusetts. He died in 1973. After his death I had two lodgers in my home. One of them married my daughter, the other one, Lars Gren, married me. Since then we have worked together.
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Average rating: 4.15 · 13,353 ratings · 975 reviews · 61 distinct works

	Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control by Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (Foreword) 4.07 avg rating — 3,626 ratings — published 1984 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Through Gates of Splendor: 40th Anniversary Edition 4.32 avg rating — 2,768 ratings — published 1957 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot 4.32 avg rating — 1,301 ratings — published 1958 — 14 editions	My rating:
	A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael 4.23 avg rating — 845 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Let Me Be a Woman 4.08 avg rating — 844 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity 3.97 avg rating — 403 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Keep a Quiet Heart 4.32 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Discipline: The Glad Surrender 4.20 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	My rating:
	These Strange Ashes 4.12 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 1979 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Journals of Jim Elliot by Elisabeth Elliot (Editor), Jim Elliot 4.15 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2002	My rating:

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“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!"

~Jim Elliot”
― Elisabeth Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot

tags: death , dying , jim-elliot , truth

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“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of christian,But the fact that I am a christian does make me a different kind of woman.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

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“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, Through Gates of Splendor: 40th Anniversary Edition

tags: christianity , faith

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