Kinsley Callahan’s Reviews > Let Me Be a Woman - Elisabeth Elliot > Status Update

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian. But the fact that I ask a Christian does make me a different kind of woman This chapter talks about certain lies the culture pushes on women. Specifically, the compassion trap. The easy truth that combats this is: God sets no trap for us.
Women’s thinking in regard to women’s right is normally a case of the grass is always greener.

“The truth is that none of us knows the will of God for his life. I say for his life- for the promise is ‘as though goest step by step I will open up the way before thee.’ He gives us enough light for today, enough strength for one day at a time, enough manna, our daily bread.”

“Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living” - Jim Elliot

“What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpent's offer and had said to him instead, "Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be let me bea woman"?
But the sin was fatal beyond their worst imaginings. It was hubris, a lifting up of the soul in defiance of God, the pride that usurps another's place. It is a damnable kind of pride.”