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 I do a question and answer period which I very much enjoy doing I often offend people because I give a very brief and maybe seemingly brusks answer.

I do my best to give a brief answer so that I brief and maybe seemingly brusque answer.

I do my best to give a brief answer

so that I can get through all the questions.

I also try to give a biblical answer.

If I can't give a biblical answer, I may just give an Elizabeth Elliott opinion which is worth next to nothing.

You can discard that. I would hope that if I give you a biblical answer, you would be much slower to discard it than you would my opinions.

But please don't feel that I've given you the back of my hand

if I haven't spelled out all the ifs ands and buts

that you had in your mind.

First question, suppose you realize that you have already

failed a very important test.

May I see the hands of those of you who have not failed a very important test.

We fail, don't we? Daily.

And failed God's will for your life.

Well, I don't think you can know that you failed God's will for your life.

You may be convinced that it was a different course

that you were supposed to choose.

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