Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years

by Ellen Vaughn

There is only one Hero who does not disappoint. As for the rest of us, we must be strangely content to see people as they are, courageous and terrified, noble and petty, discerning and blind.

What does faith look like, Elisabeth asked, when the “results” of obedience cannot be seen? How do we understand ministry apart from impressive statistics and victorious stories?

they “were up against something far too big for them, something their categories did not cover. So, rather than admit to ignorance, they resort to oversimplifications, snap judgments, easy cliches—which amount to lying.”

A beautifully-rendered novel that cut to the heart of the human experience and evoked the very rhythms of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration, even in the faintest of echoes, spoke more powerfully of the glory of God than the trite “Christian” novel in which the main characters all prayed the “salvation prayer” at the end.

my conception of missionaries is that they are superior in every respect, and I don’t like to have this image marred.’”⁠