How do you deal with the impatience of being with the person you love?
What is the role of a single woman? To wait?
How do you know if that person is the right one for you?
These and many other questions have been asked of Elisabeth Elliot. In Passion and Purity, she emphasizes the need to surrender all matters of the heart to Christ and to wait on Him. Elisabeth tells her love story with Jim Elliot, so that "it may serve as evidence that I have been there." Through letters, journal entries, and memories, she speaks of the temptations, difficulties, victories, and sacrifices of two young people whose consecration to Christ was above the love they had for each other. These revealing personal details, combined with relevant biblical teaching, can help us remember that only by passing our human passions through His fire can God purify our love.
