There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available in their original form.

So you too can be built up through the insights and mysteries God revealed to her throughout her ministry.

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliot.

You know my theme for these three days a steadfast heart, a simpler life and I am

convinced that most of us earnestly and almost desperately desire a simpler life,

but it does have to begin with a steadfast heart.

And I want to begin by asking you three questions for you to ponder. Number one is what do you want in life?

Second question, how will you get it?

And number three, what will it cost you?

What do you want in life?

How will you get it, and what will it cost you?

And I see that there are a good many gray heads here tonight besides my own.

And I for one have to confess that I have been a very slow learner.

And I hope that I will continue to learn every minute that the Lord has assigned for the rest of my life

and none of us knows whether we'll be here tomorrow morning do we? But I do want holiness. I want to be like

Jesus. I don't think that there's ever been anything that I wanted more than that.

I trust there's never been anything that I've wanted as much as that.

And it was when I was about 12 years old that I made up my mind that that was what I wanted. Well of course the great question is how are you

going to get it? It's interesting to me how many times I've asked young people

this first question what do you want more than anything else in the world and I draw a

blank. Now they could come up with what they would like on their Big Mac or what

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