Quotes related to Philippians 4:6
Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
— Elisabeth Elliot
But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up.
— Elisabeth Elliot
What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Thanksgiving is a spiritual exercise, necessary to the building of a healthy soul. It takes us out of the stuffiness of ourselves into the fresh breeze and sunlight of the will of God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If the yearning went away, what would we have to offer up to the Lord? Aren't they given to us to offer? It is the control of passion, not it's eradication, that is needed.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?
— Elisabeth Elliot
The Lord did not say we should not use repetition. He said we should not use vain repetition. A prayer prayed from the heart of the child to the Father is never vain.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I must teach you to long for something better...For my uncontrollable longings for this man, Lord --- Your strength.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Prayer never evaporates. It sets into motion forces as inexorable and perhaps as unhurriable as a glacier, but when the Lord's arm reaches down, no power in heaven or earth will frustrate him.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Learning to pray is learning to trust the wisdom, the power, and the love of our Heavenly Father, always so far beyond our dreams.
— Elisabeth Elliot
What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.
— Elizabeth George