The recently departed Elisabeth Elliot Gren wrote or edited approximately 2 dozen books and gave many, many talks during her ministry. Here are just a few of her sayings that come readily to my mind and have helped me on my journey:
- "You are loved with an everlasting love." That's what the Bible says, "And underneath are the everlasting arms." (She opened her daily radio message this way.)
- Holiness is a whole-hearted "yes" to God.
- What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Creator calls a butterfly (A Path Through Suffering).
- "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" (from her first husband, the martyred missionary Jim Elliot).
- "When the will of God crosses the will of man, somebody has to die" (from her second husband, Addison Leitch, quoted in Passion and Purity).
- "See in it [in any hard thing, any suffering the Lord allows] material for sacrifice" (Amy Carmichael).
- You don't have to feel like it; you just have to do it.
- It is always possible to do the will of God.
- Do the next thing.
- Teach me to treat all that comes to me today with peace of soul and the firm conviction that Your sovereignty rules over all (A Path Through Suffering).
