Elisabeth Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot’s inspirational accounts of her husband’s death as a missionary in Ecuador in the 1950s, Through the Gates of Splendor and Shadow of the Almighty, became evangelical staples. Elliot went on to write about faith and womanhood and hosted a Christian radio show. After years of suffering from dementia, she died in 2015 at age 88.

We often think that freedom means doing whatever we want, when we want. But true freedom comes from only one place: Obeying the Lord.