Notes
Notes
Chapter 2 Fierceness and Tenderness
1. Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now (New York: Scribner, 1963), 15, 16.
2. Gerald Vann, The Son’s Course (Glasgow: Collins, 1960), 10.
Chapter 6 The Gift of Widowhood
1. The story of those years is told in Shadow of the Almighty, Passion and Purity, and These Strange Ashes.
2. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan, 1965), 35.
Chapter 7 Under the Same Auspices
1. Amy Carmichael, Kohila (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1939), 111.
Chapter 9 A Love Strong Enough to Hurt
1. See Luke 20:18; Daniel 6:20; Ezekiel 37:3; 1 Kings 17:20; 2 Kings 6:15, 33; 18:35; John 6:15; 3:4; 4:11; 6:52; 7:15; 6:9; Mark 16:3.
Chapter 10 Death Is a New Beginning
1. Lilias Trotter, Parables of the Cross (London: Algiers Mission Board and North Africa Mission, 1964), 24–25.
Chapter 11 The Price Is Outrageous
1. Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1916), 16–17.
2. Père Didon, Spiritual Letters, as quoted in Amy Carmichael, Gold Cord (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1932), 58–59.
3. See Luke 14:31.
4. Quoted in Vann, The Son’s Course, 128.
Chapter 12 The Intolerable Compliment
1. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan, 1965), 41.
2. Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Golden Echo,” in Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Selected With an Introduction and Notes by W. H. Gardner, ed. (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1960), 53, 54.
Chapter 13 Married but Alone
1. Tillich, The Eternal Now, 17.
2. Ruth Sanford, Do You Feel Alone in the Spirit? (Ann Arbor: Servant, 1978).
3. I am indebted to C. S. Lewis or George MacDonald, perhaps both, for the idea of these last two sentences.
4. Quoted in Walker Percy’s Foreword to The New Catholics, ed. Dan O’Neill (New York: Crossroad, 1987).
Chapter 14 Love Means Acceptance
1. See Job 1:9–11.
2. See Job 42:5–6.
3. Maud Monahan, The Life and Letters of Janet Erskine Stuart (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1953), 97.
4. Amy Carmichael, “For in Acceptance Lieth Peace,” in Toward Jerusalem (Ft. Washington, PA: Christian Literature Crusade, 1936), 40. Reprinted by permission.
Chapter 15 A Field with a Treasure in It
1. Robert Service, “The Law of the Yukon,” in Collected Poems of Robert Service (New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1940), 10.
2. Vann, The Son’s Course, 92.
3. The Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Chicago: Moody Press, 1951), 129.
Chapter 16 Make Me a Cake
1. For a fuller treatment of these offerings, see Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1985).
2. Amy Carmichael, “Nothing in the House,” in Toward Jerusalem, 44.
Chapter 17 The Glory of Sacrifice
1. See 1 Peter 2:5.
2. From “A Penitential Order: Rite One,” in The Book of Common Prayer, 1979.
3. Psalm 57:2, NEB; Psalm 40:5, NEB; Psalm 119:91, NEB; Romans 8:28, Phillips; Ephesians 1:11–12, NEB; 2 Corinthians 5:5, NEB.
Chapter 19 A Strange Peace
1. St. Julian of Norwich.
2. Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede (New York: Viking, 1969), 3.
Chapter 20 Help Me Not to Want So Much
1. For more on the natural craving for human love, see Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1984).
Chapter 21 Turn Your Solitude into Prayer
1. Albert Camus, The Fall (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957), 133.
Chapter 22 How Do I Do This Waiting Stuff?
1. From the New English Bible and the Jerusalem Bible.
2. From A Litany for the Personal Life, adapted by Charles David Williams, 13th printing (Cincinnati: Forward Movement Publications, n.d.).
Chapter 23 A Pathway to Holiness
1. George Herbert, “A Dialogue Anthem,” in The Poems of George Herbert (London: Oxford, 1958), 153.
Chapter 24 Spiritual Maturity Means Spiritual Parenthood
1. See Eileen Crossman, Mountain Rain (Singapore: Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984).
Chapter 25 An Exchanged Life
1. Ron Hanson, “The Male Clock,” Esquire, April 1985.
2. Harry Stein, “A Man of Progeny,” Esquire, April 1985.