from Elisabeth Elliot’s Keep a Quiet Heart, p. 46 Because my husband Lars is a Norwegian who would happily eat fish three times a day if I’d give it to him (I seldom do), I often have fishheads and fishbones to discard. I don’t’ like the noise the disposal makes...
from Elisabeth Elliot’s Keep a Quiet Heart, p. 157 A young woman came in great perplexity to a Scottish preacher, asking how she could resolve the question of her own desires when they seemed to be in such contradiction to the will of God. He took out a slip of paper,...
from Elisabeth Elliot’s Keep a Quiet Heart, p. 155 As a little girl I especially loved the story of God’s call to the child Samuel as he lay sleeping in the temple. I wondered if God would ever call me. Would I hear Him? What would He say? Throughout my growing years...
from Elisabeth Elliot’s Keep a Quiet Heart, p. 134 “I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry” (Psalm 40:1, NIV). The tests of our willingness to wait patiently for the Lord come almost daily for most of us, I suppose. Probably I am among the...