Keep a Quiet Heart Quotes

“Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“Money holds terrible power when it is loved”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“A willing acceptance of all that God assigns and a glad surrender of all that I am and have constitute the key to receiving the gift of a quiet heart. Whenever I have balked, the quietness goes. It is restored, and life immeasurably simplified, when I have trusted and obeyed.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day - seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“Thanksgiving is a spiritual exercise, necessary to the building of a healthy soul. It takes us out of the stuffiness of ourselves into the fresh breeze and sunlight of the will of God.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“​A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
Elisabeth Elliot”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“All along, let us remember, we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey. . . . On July 28, Saturday, I sailed. We had to come on board on Friday night, and just as the tender (a small boat) where were the dear friends who had come to say goodbye was moving off, and the chill of loneliness shivered through me, like a warm love-clasp came the long-loved lines—‘And only Heaven is better than to walk with Christ at midnight, over moonless seas.’ I couldn’t feel frightened then. Praise Him for the moonless seas—all the better the opportunity for proving Him to be indeed the El Shaddai, ‘the God who is Enough.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“People with disabilities are God’s best visual aids to demonstrate who He really is. His power shows up best in weakness. And who by the world’s standards is weaker than the mentally or physically disabled? As the world watches, these people persevere. They live, love, trust and obey Him. Eventually the world is forced to say, “How great their God must be to inspire this kind of loyalty.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“am convinced without a doubt that a loving Heavenly Father oversees the creative miracles in the inner sanctum of each mother’s womb (Psalm 139), and that in His sovereignty there are no accidents.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“A birth defect by God’s grace does not rob childhood of its wonder, nor is a child burdened by high expectations.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“God conceals much that we do not need to know, yet we do know that He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“All of the past, I believe, is a part of God’s story of each child of His—a mystery of love and sovereignty, written before the foundation of the world, never a hindrance to the task He has designed for us, but rather the very preparation suited to our particular personality’s need.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“Jesus in the unbroken intimacy of His Father’s love, kept a quiet heart.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“A willing acceptance of all that God assigns and a glad surrender of all that I am and have constitute the key to receiving the gift of a quiet heart.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“Lord, give to me a quiet heart That does not ask to understand, But confident steps forward in The darkness guided by Thy hand.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“If we were given all we wanted here our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“If you knew what God knows about death,” wrote George MacDonald, “you would clap your listless hands.” Family Prayers When I was a child my father and mother gathered the six of us in the living room after breakfast every morning for family prayers.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“He had asked counsel of this old veteran, E.L. Langston, in Africa.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“No one goes to church more than the devil does, and no one appears as an angel of light as he does. We are in the thick of facing powers of darkness who are determined to rob us of Him and rob God of us, and you and I, my brother, have just got to hope in Christ and rely on Him for His Spirit to direct our thoughts, our ways, and our works so that it is not us but Christ in us.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“Fortunately we both know that temptation is not sin, it is yielding to temptation that causes us to sin and I feel that you must count it joy that you are passing through these times of difficulty, for they are sure signs that the Lord is blessing you. . . .”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“A spirit of calm contentment always accompanies true godliness.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“The Lord did not say we should not use repetition. He said we should not use vain repetition. A prayer prayed from the heart of the child to the Father is never vain.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“I’ve many a cross to take up now, And many left behind; But present troubles move me not, Nor shake my quiet mind. And what may be to-morrow’s cross I never seek to find; My Father says, “Leave that to me, And keep a quiet mind.” Anonymous”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart