"His sacred intent for you and
for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus Christ, entire
separation from the pollution of the world and ardent worship of our King with
every breath we take."
- Leslie Ludy
- My Vow -
Whatsoever Thou sayest unto me, by Thy grace I will do it
- My Constraint -
Thy love, O Christ, my Lord
- My Confidence -
Thou art able to keep that which I have committed unto Thee.
- My Joy - To do
Thy will, O God
- My discipline -
That which I would not choose, but which Thy love appoints
- My Prayer -
Conform my will to thine
- My Motto - Love
to live: Live to love
- My Portion - The
Lord is the portion of mine inheritance.
Amy Carmichael’s Sisters of the
Common Life
“I don’t want anybody treating
me as a ‘person’ rather than as a
woman. Our sexual differences are the terms of our life, and to obscure them in
any way is to weaken the very fabric of life itself. When they are lost, we are
lost. Some women fondly imagine a new beginning of liberty, but it is in
reality a new bondage, more bitter than anything they seek to be liberated
from. I want to know not ‘people’ but men and women. I am interested in men as
men, in women as women.”
“No woman who has not learned to master
herself can be trusted to submit willingly to her husband. And that word
willingly means that she does not merely resign herself to something she cannot
avoid. It means that by an act of her own will she gives herself. With gladness
she submits because she understands that voluntary submission is her very
strength. Because it is the thing asked of her by her Creator, it is the thing
which assures her of fulfillment. It is the task assigned her which, willingly
performed, actually strengthens the husband in his weakness.”
“The strong-willed person wills
against himself, chooses that which he does not naturally choose, refuses that
which he would naturally choose. Many men protest that it is not their nature
to dominate. Many see their wives as superior to them in intelligence, strength
of character, physical endurance, or spiritual perception, and use this as an
excuse to let them lead. The roles are not assigned on the basis of capability.
They were determined at the beginning of Creation to be a man’s role and a
woman’s role and again, we are not free to experiment, tamper with, or exchange
them.”
“The more womanly
you are, the more manly your husband will want to be.”
Elisabeth Elliot
“A woman who carries herself
like a lady is far more apt to be treated like a lady.”
Leslie Ludy
“We all need to add more
nobility to our behavior, more majesty to our language, more elegance to our
presentation, and more sacred decorum to our bearing.”
– Leslie Ludy –
“If our culture always expects
young women to be playing with their sexual power, always at the ready for the
advances of anyone, this means they never have the right to say ‘no.’”
“Our dignity is in our secrets.
If nothing is secret, nothing is sacred.”
Wendy Shalit
“Her heart was a secret garden,
and the walls were very high.”
William Goldman
