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ELISABETH ELLIOT But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do ... ELISABETH ELLIOT God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justi... ELISABETH ELLIOT Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less,... ELISABETH ELLIOT If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril i... ELISABETH ELLIOT One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when a... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for. ELISABETH ELLIOT Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you ELISABETH ELLIOT The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will no... ELISABETH ELLIOT Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logic... ELISABETH ELLIOT The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appe... ELISABETH ELLIOT Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward... ELISABETH ELLIOT I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself ... ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t... ELISABETH ELLIOT If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is... ELISABETH ELLIOT One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lif... ELISABETH ELLIOT The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances. ELISABETH ELLIOT What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may... ELISABETH ELLIOT I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I d... ELISABETH ELLIOT Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in ... ELISABETH SHUE I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have.... ELISABETH SHUE I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play. ELISABETH SHUE She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is... ELISABETH SHUE Writing? Pshhh, this is art. NOELLE ELISABETH The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much ELISABETH FOLEY Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of conta... ELISABETH ELLIOT You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally rea... JENNIFER ELISABETH I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure ... JENNIFER ELISABETH I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’v... JENNIFER ELISABETH I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stre... JENNIFER ELISABETH I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not the... JENNIFER ELISABETH I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes… JENNIFER ELISABETH I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the... JENNIFER ELISABETH I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this lis... JENNIFER ELISABETH I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. ... JENNIFER ELISABETH I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely und... JENNIFER ELISABETH I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other peop... JENNIFER ELISABETH Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experien... JENNIFER ELISABETH I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of... JENNIFER ELISABETH I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton ... JENNIFER ELISABETH You haunt my days and dreams. JENNIFER ELISABETH If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep. JENNIFER ELISABETH I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear. JENNIFER ELISABETH The Fall will always be yours and mine… JENNIFER ELISABETH Your personal truth is your gift to the world. JENNIFER ELISABETH I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinnin... JENNIFER ELISABETH Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportuniti... JENNIFER ELISABETH