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Elisabeth Elliot was a Christian author and speaker. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca of eastern Ecuador. She later spent two years as a missionary to the tribe members who killed her husband. Returning to the United States after many years in South America, she became widely known as the author of over twenty books and as a speaker. Elliot toured the country, sharing her knowledge and experience, well into her seventies. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Dicembre 1926 – 15. Giugno 2015
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Elisabeth Elliot: Frasi in inglese

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”

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“The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.”

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Origine: Keep a Quiet Heart

“Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.”

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Origine: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.”

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Origine: Let Me be a Woman

“The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”

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Origine: Let Me be a Woman

“The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life,
the greater peace.”

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“When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).”

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Origine: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.”

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Origine: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.”

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Origine: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.”

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Origine: The Mark of a Man

“Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.”

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Elisabeth Elliot libro Passion and Purity

Origine: Passion and Purity

“Jesus never pussyfooted”

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Origine: The Mark of a Man

“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”

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Elisabeth Elliot libro Passion and Purity

Origine: Passion and Purity

“Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.”

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Origine: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.”

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Origine: Let Me be a Woman

“The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.”

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Origine: Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

“Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.”

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Origine: Keep a Quiet Heart

“Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.”

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“Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart’s truth.”

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Origine: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.”

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Origine: Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

“He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.”

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“Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.”

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Origine: These Strange Ashes

“God has promised to supply our needs. What we don’t have now we don’t need now.”

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Origine: The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God

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