“My parents were missionaries in Belgium where I was born. When I was a few months old, we came to the U.S. and lived in Germantown, not far from Philadelphia, where my father became an editor of the Sunday School Times. Some of my contemporaries may remember the publication which was used by hundreds of churches for their weekly unified Sunday School teaching materials.

Our family continued to live in Philadelphia and then in New Jersey until I left home to attend Wheaton College. By that time, the family had increased to four brothers and one sister. My studies in classical Greek would one day enable me to work in the area of unwritten languages to develop a form of writing.

A year after I went to Ecuador, Jim Elliot, whom I had met at Wheaton, also entered tribal areas with the Quichua Indians. In nineteen fifty three we were married in the city of Quito and continued our work together. Jim had always hoped to have the opportunity to enter the territory of an unreached tribe. The Aucas were in that category — a fierce group whom no one had succeeded in meeting without being killed. After the discovery of their whereabouts, Jim and four other missionaries entered Auca territory. After a friendly contact with three of the tribe, they were speared to death.

Our daughter Valerie was 10 months old when Jim was killed. I continued working with the Quichua Indians when, through a remarkable providence, I met two Auca women who lived with me for one year. They were the key to my going in to live with the tribe that had killed the five missionaries. I remained there for two years.

After having worked for two years with the Aucas, I returned to the Quichua work and remained there until 1963 when Valerie and I returned to the U.S.

Since then, my life has been one of writing and speaking. It also included, in 1969, a marriage to Addison Leitch, professor of theology at Gordon Conwell Seminary in Massachusetts. He died in 1973. After his death I had two lodgers in my home. One of them married my daughter, the other one, Lars Gren, married me. Since then we have worked together.” – Elisabeth Elliot

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Elisabeth Elliot Devotionals

• 8 Ways to Lose Your Peace by Elisabeth Elliot
• A Devious Repentance By Elisabeth Elliot
• An Antidote for Pride By Elisabeth Elliot
• Christ Lives In Me by Elisabeth Elliot (audio)
• Difficulties are Proof Contexts By Elisabeth Elliot
• Do You Want an Answer? By Elisabeth Elliot
• Elisabeth Elliot on the word “missionary”
• Excerpt from ‘A Quiet Heart’ by Elisabeth Elliot
• Expectations of A Pilgrim by Elisabeth Elliot (audio)
• Fear God and Fear Nothing Else By Elisabeth Elliot
• First Be Quiet by Elisabeth Elliot
• First Be Quiet By Elisabeth Elliot
• Give Way to Truth By Elisabeth Elliot
• God’s Messengers By Elisabeth Elliot
• Holy Harmony by Elisabeth Elliot (audio)
• Identity By Elisabeth Elliot
• Love of the World By Elisabeth Elliot
• Meaning of the Cross by Elisabeth Elliot (audio)
• Moonless Trust by Elisabeth Elliott
• My Own Fault By Elisabeth Elliot
• Newsletters by Elisabeth Elliot
• No Further Than Natural Things By Elisabeth Elliot
• Part 1 – An Itch to Dominate – Nancy Leigh DeMoss with Elisabeth Elliot
• Part 1 Immersed in God’s Word – A Conversation with Elisabeth Elliot – Nancy Leigh DeMoss
• Part 2 – His Earthly Sanctuary – Nancy Leigh DeMoss with Elisabeth Elliot
• Part 2 – The Courage to Be a Woman – A Conversation with Elisabeth Elliot – Nancy Leigh DeMoss
• Prayer as Incense by Elisabeth Elliot
• Several Ways to Make Yourself Miserable by Elisabeth Elliot
• Shut Up and Know By Elisabeth Elliot
• Sulking by Elisabeth Elliot (audio)
• The Fruit of Forgiveness By Elisabeth Elliot
• The Hope of Holiness by Elisabeth Elliot
• The Hope of Holiness by Elisabeth Elliot
• The Missionary’s Expectation by Elisabeth Elliot (audio)
• The Music of His Promises by Elisabeth Elliot
• The Necessity to Cover by Elisabeth Elliot
• The Need for Silence by Elisabeth Elliot
• The Need for Silence by Elisabeth Elliot
• The Root of Hostility to Others by Elisabeth Elliot
• Time For God by Elisabeth Elliot
• Watching Quietly, Praying Silently by Elisabeth Elliot
• We Carry Death and Life by Elisabeth Elliot
• What Can I Do For God? by Elisabeth Elliot
• Willed Blindness by Elisabeth Elliot
• Willed Blindness by Elisabeth Elliot
• You Can’t Keep Both Eyes by Elisabeth Elliot