Devotedly Quotes

“Let me not respond as a child", when our whole being wants to kick and scream and wail? How willing are we to accept God's plans maturely when all human reason and affection shouts to "do something about it!" She choose to accept the Lord's timing, His way in this whole drama...”
― Valerie Elliot Shepard, Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot

“If I could express my one hope for compiling this book, my prayer is that these entries of theirs would call us to search faithfully for God in His Word. And upon discovering His unchanging, faithful, merciful, and loving character, I pray we would be more fully moved in obedience to Him that we too might leave a lasting legacy of faith as my parents did.”
― Valerie Elliot Shepard, Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot

“The Lord has a certain slow dignity about His movings which constantly shames my fretting unbelief. Jim Elliot”
― Valerie Elliot Shepard, Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot

“I have sought slowly the will of God, and the slowness has brought strength into the conviction of it, and joy in the realization of it. Jim Elliot”
― Valerie Elliot Shepard, Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot

“Let’s not pretend that my father was above the temptation. Yet, in response to it, he did what all godly men (and women) must do when accosted by strong, unholy thoughts. He called them out, considered it war, and made impassioned pleas that God would be his strength to endure.”
― Valerie Elliot Shepard, Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot

“When you hear my mother at twenty-two saying she feels ‘useless’ and ‘fearful’ and ‘ashamed,’ recall what she went on to become in life by God’s grace and power. Think what our Father is capable of doing, encouraging you to press into Him, as she did, for His glory.”
― Valerie Elliot Shepard, Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot

“The words that had already begin to flow into this private little notebook of hers--though punctuated, of course, with the typical cares and crises of any young woman’s life—would never shift from this due-north orientation. God was first; God was supreme; God was all.”
― Valerie Elliot Shepard, Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot

“Jim and Betty modeled--not perfectly, but persistently--the way God intends us to handle love, steward it, and keep it continually under His guidance.”
― Valerie Elliot Shepard, Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot

“Theirs was a deep and delighted love, something they handled with extraordinary sacredness, even as it stretched and surprised them in ways they never saw coming--spiritually and beyond.”
― Valerie Elliot Shepard, Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot

“The practice of saying "I love you" has become so commonplace and cheap that it has caused untold misery by dashing one's hopes and damaging one's heart if there is no determination to marry as a result.”
― Valerie Elliot Shepard, Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot