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 Elliott.

What if you have a girl in school that does not believe in God?

What should I do about this?

This is written by a child, and I would certainly say that the most important thing you can do

about it is to act like a Christian.

Don't try to talk her into becoming a Christian.

What should I do about this?

When I talk about God to try to get them to believe in God, she tells me to be quiet.

So I try again and again, and every time she says be quiet and she gets more and more

upset.

So finally I quit because she says shut up and run off.

By all means shut up, but in your action, in the way you do your schoolwork, in your

response to your teacher, in your courtesy to this girl, in your smiling to add her or

maybe offering her a cookie out of your lunch or something, in little ways just ask the Lord

to show you ways in which you can love her without saying a word.

What we are is always much more powerful than what we say.

That's why I pray so I ask you to pray so earnestly that the Lord will not allow me to be merely

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