Keep A Quiet Heart
The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast
The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This recording is a result of our work digitizing over 600 cassette tapes of Elisabeth's talks. Each tape is decades old and the quality of the recordings varies quite a bit from tape to tape. As we preserve Elisabeth's legacy, we will share as much of her work as possible, even when technical issues affect the quality of the audio. Each talk is unique in content and tone. All are a blessing and encouragement.
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Music: John Hanson
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| 0:00.0 | Let's pray. |
| 0:07.7 | Father, I pray that the words of my mouth |
| 0:10.7 | and the meditations of all our hearts |
| 0:14.9 | may be acceptable in your sight |
| 0:18.3 | because you are our strength and our Redeemer. |
| 0:23.6 | In Jesus' name, amen. |
| 0:28.2 | I don't really meet very many people who seem to have a quiet heart. |
| 0:36.1 | We women are particularly prone to complain about all sorts of things. |
| 0:44.3 | And things are never just exactly the way we want them to be, or we wish we were somewhere else, |
| 0:49.3 | or we had somebody else for a husband, or we didn't have this or that in our lives, or we didn't |
| 0:55.1 | have that terrible neighbor that we have to get along with, or that awful person in the church |
| 0:59.6 | that makes your life miserable. |
| 1:02.1 | There are just a whole lot of things that keep us from having a quiet heart, but I am |
| 1:08.8 | absolutely convinced that it is possible, not only to keep one, but to make it |
| 1:15.0 | evident in your life. But of course it takes growth in grace, trusting God, learning to trust him. |
| 1:28.3 | And that is a daily lesson for all of us, isn't it? |
| 1:32.3 | I'm an old woman now, and I realize that there's not a day that goes by, |
| 1:40.3 | that the Lord doesn't have something else to teach me. |
| 1:43.3 | Never imagine that we've ever arrived. |
| 1:49.1 | Many years ago, when my oldest grandson was just a little boy, less than two, I think, |
| 1:54.9 | I happened to be in the car with him, and his father, his father decided that that was the day |
| 1:59.3 | they needed to go through the car wash. |
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