Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot | Book Notes

• Barbara Youderian’s reaction to hearing her husband was dead showed an amazing amount of faith and reliance on God
• "Don was not expressing sorrow for the departed so much as expressing faith for the Lord’s will"
• "Revenge, the thought never crossed the mind of one of the wives or other missionaries"
• Their deaths lead to untold thousands of prayers for the salvation of the Aucas
• From letters sent they know hundreds of people were effected toward furthering the Gospel
• "It was startling to realize there was such a thing as spiritual commitment as robust, as total, and perhaps more demanding than the most fanatical commitment to physical fitness. It was a shock to learn that anybody cared that much about anything, especially if it was invisible."

Below is a quote from the book:

Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot

"When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord." [Nate Saint, pilot of MSF p. 60]