Holding Ou† For A Warrior Poe†

When you dress and behave in a way That is designed to arouse sexual desire in men, you’re committing pornography with your life.

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—	Josh Harris (via floatingonalright)

God’s standards are so much higher than the standards we place for ourselves that only the victory of Christ’s death and resurrection can provide the right power and the right motive needed to change us.

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—	Joshua Harris, Not Even a Hint (via set-apartgirl)

Right now, I feel so in love with God. So crazily in love with God.

Pure Blyss.: There he goes again, I thought, quoting Scripture. Jim Elliot was a... »

There he goes again, I thought, quoting Scripture. Jim Elliot was a walking Bible. Knew it backwards and forwards, and was forever nailing me with verses exactly suited to pierce the very marrow.

“Ever think about that one, Betts?” he said. “Singleness is a gift. ‘To those who are unmarried or widowed, I say definitely that it is a good thing to remain unattached, as I am.’ That’s the apostle Paul talking.”

It sounded like him all right. Not very palatable just now. Singleness, if it was a gift, held no attraction for me. I was nearly twenty-three and my friends were getting married in rapid succession. I, only I, was left. And here beside me, on this lovely evening in this idyllic place, living and breathing (I was tinglingly aware even of his breathing), sat the man I would give anything in the world to marry. But was he asking me to marry him? Nothing of the sort. He was asking me to see my solitary status as a gift.

an excerpt from Loneliness (ch. 5) - by Elisabeth Elliot

What, she asks, is your college educating women for? Surely it is to draw out (the root meaning of the word educate) the gifts God has given, whatever they may be.

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—	Elisabeth Elliot, in Let Me Be A Woman (via sunshjne)

ladykimi:

Lord, help me to appreciate this person without elevating him above You in my heart. Help me to remember that no human can ever take Your place in my life. You are my strength, my hope, my joy, and my ultimate reward. Bring me back to reality, God; give me an undivided heart (Psalm 86:11) - I kissed Dating Goodbye, Joshua Harris

My father counselled his four sons never to say ‘I love you’ to a woman until they were ready to follow immediately with ‘will you marry me?’. Nor should they think of saying ‘will you marry me’ unless they had first said ‘I love you’. How much pain and confusion would be averted if men followed that rule.

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—	Elisabeth Elliot (via allwillfadeawayy)

It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men do. This is a distortion and a travesty. Men have never sought to prove that the can do all the things women do. Why subject women to purely masculine criteria? Women can and ought to be judged by the criteria of femininity, for it is in their femininity that they participate in the human race. And femininity has its limitations. So has masculinity. That is what we’ve been talking about. To do this is not to do that. To be this is not to be that. To be a woman is not to be a man. To be married is not to be single—which may mean not to have a career. To marry this man is not to marry all the others. A choice is a limitation.

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—	Elisabeth Elliot, in Let Me Be A Woman (via sunshjne)

abcjen:

The kind of passionate, unyielding dedication is a picture of what it means to build our lives around intimacy with Christ in the inner sanctuary of our hearts. Don’t settle for hearing about intimacy with Him, singing about intimacy with Him, or reading about intimacy with Him; but really discover true intimacy with Him by building your entire life around Him. A life built around Christ is the essence of what it means to be His lily-white princess.