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.

When a young lady is committed to courtship, should she begin preparing for marriage

while she is doing the Lord's will for her as an unmarried woman?

I think that every one of us should be preparing by becoming more and more godly.

I mean there isn't a better way to prepare for marriage.

I'm not saying that all single people should be preparing for marriage because there isn't any way that you know that you're going to be married.

Even if you're engaged, you have no way of knowing that marriage is actually going to happen.

So all these principles of love, obedience, self-sacrifice,

giving up your right to yourself, certainly there's no better preparation for marriage

than giving up your right to yourself, because if two people refuse to give up their right to themselves,

it's going to be a very miserable marriage.

So yes, I would just say, do the Lord's will as an unmarried woman and let God take care. I would

appreciate you giving a response to a couple of your books that are seldom

mentioned. One is called these strange ashes and it is coming back

out in print. It's been out of print for a long time but these strange ashes tells

about four major blows to my faith

before I married Jim Elliot.

I was a missionary, a single missionary in the Western jungle of Ecuador,

and four huge tests came in my life,

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