Becoming Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

“Sometimes we look at outcomes in this life, seeking the reassurance of a happy ending, and it's just not there. What then? As Betty put it, His ways are "inscrutable." So we have to rest, not in the peace of a pretty story, but in the reality of faith in a Person we cannot see.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“When He doesn’t fix broken situations in our lives, it’s usually because He is fixing us through them.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“For Elisabeth, the central question was not, “How does this make me feel?” but simply, “Is this true?” If so, then the next question was, “What do I need to do about it to obey God?” Boom.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“I knew, standing in Elisabeth Elliot’s home, with her favorite books, her piano, her teacups, and the wild ocean she loved just beyond the picture window, that those long-ago deaths in the jungle were just part of her story. For Elisabeth, as for all of us, the most dramatic chapters may well be less significant than the daily faithfulness that traces the brave trajectory of a human life radically submitted to Christ.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“Oh, how I pray for conforming to the acceptable will of God. I do not want to miss one lesson. Yet I find that events do not change souls. It is our response to them which finally affects us. - Elisabeth Elliot”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“Only God knows if anything in my ‘missionary career’ has ever contributed anything at all to this end. But much in that ‘career’ has brought me to Christ.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“Betty made sure to write her parents about all the dramatic events of the spring of 1945. Four-term president Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed away in April: “Wasn’t the president’s death a shock? I heard it 15 minutes after he died and just couldn’t believe it. I was thrilled that Truman declared yesterday a day of prayer and asked the newspaper men who knew how, to pray for him. A good start—maybe he won’t be so bad after all. [A professor] had just said last Monday that he could think of nothing worse that could possibly happen to the U.S. than if Truman were to have been elected. And now this! We never know how God will use it.”4”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“I find that faith is more vigorously exercised when I can find no satisfying explanation for the way God does things. I have to hope, without any evidence seen, that things will come right in the end—not merely that we shall receive compensation, but that we and all creation will be redeemed. This means infinitely more than the good will eventually outweigh the evil.”15”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“Edwards wrote in his Religious Affections that most thoughtful human beings feel a sense of gratitude for God’s gifts: life, health, a crisp, sky-blue day. He called it natural gratitude. That, while a common good, is not enough to stir us to true, deep love for the Giver. If people love God only because of what He gives, Edwards points out that “even a dog will love his master that is kind to him.”1 As Betty Howard wrote, there is a deeper, more mysterious, more sustaining sense of thankfulness: gratitude to God not for what He gives, but who He is. Edwards denoted this as supernatural gratitude, and said that it is the mark of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. This radical, gracious gratitude can thrive even in the midst of times of pain, trouble, and distress. It is relational, rather than conditional, drawing the human being who knows God into closer intimacy with Him.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“Now she realized, yet again, that a life of obedience never really comes in for a landing, so to speak. “He leads us right on, right through, right up to the threshold of Heaven. He does not say to us, ever, ‘Here it is.’ He says only, ‘Here am I. Fear not.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“It was a long time before I came to the realization that it is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself. Even the Son of God had to learn obedience by the things that He suffered . . . And His reward was desolation, crucifixion.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain. If God were God, if He were omnipotent, if He had cared, would this have happened? Is this that I face now the ratification of my calling, the reward of obedience?”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“God does work through hurt. God works in the midst of all things.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“Murray”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

“How grateful I am to the Lord for giving me such a dear husband and baby. How much life means now—living for them, giving of myself to them, feeling myself needed by them. Of all hopelessly selfish people I should have been the worst had I remained single.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot