On Asking God Why Quotes

“We are indeed “miserable offenders.” We have done and left undone. We are foolish and weak and blind and self-willed and men of little faith. We run here, we run there, we form committees and attend meetings and attack the church and its organization and its isolation and its useless machinery and its irrelevance and ineffectiveness. But all the time it stands there, holding the Cross, telling us that there is forgiveness, that we have not been left to ourselves, that no matter how shocking the image that we finally see of ourselves in the light of God’s truth, God himself has done something about it all.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World

“And one more thing: I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World

“She was awed by the privilege. She accepted the disciplines.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World