Tess McDonald

“My portion. My cup. My lot is secure. My heart can be at peace. My Father is in charge. How simple!”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Be Still My Soul: Reflections on Living the Christian Life

“...so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living,” he wrote to me, and those words have helped me very often since. We accept and thank God for what is given, not allowing the not-given to spoil it.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

“There is no qualitative or quantitative measurement for pain. It is simply there--sharp or dull, shooting or stabbing, bearable or excruciating, local or general, it is unexplained, uninvited, unavoidable. It takes command. It is all-encompassing, implacable, exigent.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Love Has A Price Tag