Secure in the Everlasting Arms Quotes

“One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms

“Faith is a decision.It is not a deduction from the facts around us. We would not look at the world of today and logically conclude that God loves us. It doesn't always look as though He does.Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lion's den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things always work. It is an act of the will, a choice, based on the Unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms

“But, in the words of a Portuguese proverb, “God writes straight with crooked lines”, and He is far more interested in getting us where He wants us to be than we are in getting there. He does not discuss things with us. He leads us faithfully and plainly as we trust Him and simply do the next thing.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms

“In times of deepest suffering it is the faithful carrying out of ordinary duties that brings the greatest consolation.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms

“If one truly wants to be His disciple he must first give up his right to himself (a total abandonment), take up the Cross (which must mean, sooner or later and in many forms, suffering), and finally follow -- a daily obedience.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms

“There is an active practice of holiness as we carry out, for the glory of God, the ordinary duties of each day, faithfully fulfilling the responsibilities given us. The passive practice consists in living acceptance of the unexpected, be it welcome or unwelcome, remembering that we have a wise and sovereign Lord who works in mysterious ways and is never taken by surprise.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms

“Jesus asks us to take up the cross - to take it up daily. What does this mean? Surely it is the quiet acceptance of disappointments, the willing performance of some hard task we'd prefer to avoid or some small duty which is distasteful to us. It is forgiveness to that one who has deeply wronged us and has not apologized (the Lord tells us to forgive those who trespass, not only those who apologize!) The cross is offered to us every day in some form, at times comparatively trivial, at other times real suffering, but it is always something which slashes straight across our human nature, for the cross was an instrument of torture.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms: Trusting the God Who Never Leaves Your Side

“When we wonder how God will do a thing this may spring from spiritual lust: I must have an explanation! We demand an answer when we ought to pray for a deeper confidence in Him who is the Answer. A simple heart, full of love for God, will soon learn what to do. Questions will be quieted.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms: Trusting the God Who Never Leaves Your Side

“God will see to it that we understand as much truth as we are willing to obey.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms: Trusting the God Who Never Leaves Your Side

“Put your trust in Him. Not in people or circumstances or dreams or programs or plans, not in any human notion of what will or won't happen, but in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, of Daniel and all the others - the God whose Son went through the darkest valleys so that you and I might be saved. If somebody was willing to give his life for you, would you trust him? Of course you would. Jesus loved you then. He loves you now. He'll be loving you every minute of every hour of every day of the rest of your life, and no matter what happens, nothing can separate you from that love. I know it's true. I have found that sure and steadfast Refuge in my Lord and Savior - the only real safety - the Everlasting Arms! I've walked with God a long time. I know He keeps His promises.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms: Trusting the God Who Never Leaves Your Side