Keep a Quiet Heart: 100 Devotional Readings

by Elisabeth Elliot

Overview

Rest awhile in a quiet place

Where can you turn for refuge when life gets too busy, too impersonal, or too much to handle? To the comforting arms of our omnipotent and infinitely loving heavenly Father.

In Keep a Quiet Heart, beloved author Elisabeth Elliot shares more than one hundred short passages that help you

● discover a deeper, more fulfilling walk with God
● willingly accept all that God assigns
● love and worship God by trusting and obeying
● focus on the everlasting love and peace of God
● surrender all that you are and accept a quiet heart

If you long for a bit of relief and rest, let Elisabeth Elliot be your compassionate guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800740962
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/05/2022
Edition description:	Repackaged Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) was the author of more than twenty books, including Passion and Purity, The Journals of Jim Elliot, and These Strange Ashes, offering guidance and encouragement to millions of readers worldwide. For more information about Elisabeth's books, visit www.elisabethelliot.org.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Section 1 Faith for the Unexplained

A Quiet Heart 17

The Angel in the Cell 21

A Small Section of the Visible Course 23

A Lesson in Things Temporal 25

Nevertheless We Must Run Aground 28

There Are No Accidents 29

Learning the Father's Love 32

A Lighthouse in Brooklyn 34

Does God Allow His Children to Be Poor? 38

Why Is God Doing This to Me? 40

Ever Been Bitter? 44

Lord, Please Remove the Dilemma 46

Maybe This Year…? 49

Do Not Forecast Grief 53

How Long Is God's Arm? 55

There Is No Other Way 56

Moonless Trust 57

Don't Forfeit Your Peace 58

A Tiny Treasure in Heaven 60

What's Out There? 62

Love's Sacrifice Leads to Joy 64

The Incarnation Is a Thing Too Wonderful 69

The Supremacy of Christ 72

Lord of All Seasons 74

The Ultimate Contradiction 75

Section 2 God's Curriculum

God's Curriculum 81

Little Things 83

What Do You Mean by Submission? 85

Where Will Complaining Get You? 87

Humdudgeons or Contentment 89

Several Ways to Make Yourself Miserable 93

Indecision 94

The Fear of Man or Woman 96

Spiritual Opposition 98

The Gift of Work 100

The Universal Thump 102

But I Have a Graduate Degree 104

The Key to Supernatural Power 106

The Weapon of Prayer 110

Why Bother to Pray? 111

Prayer Is Conflict 113

Be Honest with God 116

An Old Prayer 117

Lost and Found 118

Thanksgiving for What Is Given 122

A New Thanksgiving 124

An Overflowing Cup 127

Hints for Quiet Time 130

Chronicle of a Soul 131

Waiting 134

God's Sheep-Dogs 137

Common Courtesy 138

Interruptions, Delays, Inconveniences 139

My Life for Yours 141

A Visit to Dohnavur 144

Regrets 148

Stillness 150

Section 3 Called and Committed

Discerning the Call of God 155

How to Discover What God Wants 157

Ungodly Counsel 159

A Man Moves Toward Marriage 161

Virginity 165

Self-Pity 170

The Childless Man or Woman 172

Church Troubles 175

My Spiritual Mother 178

A Call to Older Women 180

Starting a WOTTS Group 183

Women of Like Passions 185

Nothing Is Lost 187

The Unseen Company 189

The World Must Be Shown 191

Section 4 Our Culture in Controversy

Two Views 194

I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional 197

The Taking of Human Life 199

Give Them Parking Space but Let Them Starve to Death 202

What Is Happening 205

Can Birth Be Wrong? 207

An Unaborted Gift 208

Disposable Children 209

A New Medical Breakthrough 210

Women: The Road Ahead 213

Section 5 The Christian Home

Contexts 219

My Mother 221

Family Prayers 223

Drudgery 225

Sunday Morning 227

A Word for Fathers 229

What Is a Wife to Do? 231

Response from a Seminar 235

A Child's Obedience 236

Teaching Children 239

Working Mothers 241

Women in the Work World 244

Homeschooling 245

Too Many Children? 247

A Child Learns Self-Denial 249

Serious Play, Careless Work 252

How Much Should Children Work? 257

"…with All Your Mind" 259

Teach Your Child to Choose 261

Matthew Henry on Child Training 263

A Note to Fathers 265

The Mother of the Lord 266