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The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

Talking to Singles – The Faith Race Part 3

The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation

Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:10.6

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available

0:16.0

in their original form.

0:18.1

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

0:23.7

her ministry.

0:25.4

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliott.

0:33.4

I'm going to talk to the singles for a little while.

0:41.0

Are there any here?

0:42.0

May I see your hands?

0:44.6

Well judging by the piles of letters that I receive on this subject, I deduce that almost

0:53.5

all young women are quite naturally longing for love.

0:58.8

As a college girl, so was I.

1:02.2

Few men are as eager as women are to seek a mate.

1:06.0

Might as well put that in your pipe and smoke it, you know, because it's true.

1:12.1

They're much less eager.

1:15.6

Many women write long letters to me explaining how they first saw a certain young man.

1:23.5

And quote, felt at once that this was the man the Lord had picked out for them.

1:29.8

Perhaps he was.

1:32.3

And perhaps he wasn't.

1:34.7

C.S. Lewis in his book Letters to Malcolm describes faith as the state of mind which desperate

1:42.1

desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture.

1:49.6

This is not faith, a Christian in a Christian sense.

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