Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5-6
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
— Elisabeth Elliot
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.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
— Elisabeth Elliot
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.
— Elisabeth Elliot
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.
— Elisabeth Elliot
You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and a whole lot less fear of each other.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time--His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.
— Elisabeth Elliot
He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Do the next thing." I don't know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety than that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom. Do the next thing. That has gotten me through more agonies than anything else I could recommend.
— Elisabeth Elliot