Quotes about Divine
God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look "little" or "big.
— Elisabeth Elliot
What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answer--a sign of the love of the Lord.
— Elisabeth Elliot
How long Lord must I wait? Nevermind child, trust me.
— Elisabeth Elliot
A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the image is marred, but it is a divine image nonetheless, capable of redemption and therefore to be held in honor.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Just start thanking God in advance because no matter what is about to happen, you already know that God is in charge. You are not adrift in a sea of chaos.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Whatever dark tunnel we may be called upon to travel through, God has been there.
— Elisabeth Elliot
But, in the words of a Portuguese proverb, "God writes straight with crooked lines", and He is far more interested in getting us where He wants us to be than we are in getting there. He does not discuss things with us. He leads us faithfully and plainly as we trust Him and simply do the next thing.
— Elisabeth Elliot
So if you get all hung up, thinking now is this thing from God or is it from Satan? Is this the voice of God or the voice of Satan? Stop worrying about it. You don't really need to sort that out because here's a case where the thorn was in a sense given by God as a messenger of Satan.
— Elisabeth Elliot
God makes the assignments, and he apportions the degree of difficulty in precise measurements.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Lord, where there are interruption, it seems that the disposal of the time I had planned so well have slipped out of my hands. Help me then to remember that it has not slipped out of Yours. In Your hands, these unexpected things will be fashioned into an unexpectedly beautiful design
— Elisabeth Elliot
Our major problems of acceptance and trust usually have to do with timing, because God's timetable is always different from ours. He wants me to wait in order to believe, in order to learn to put my faith in His timing.
— Elisabeth Elliot