Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity Paperback – April 1, 2002

This book has profoundly influenced my life and taken me deeper in my walk with God. First read it 20 years ago. Just read it again! Still couldn’t recommend anything more highly. What a blessing and so many words of wisdom shared by Elisabeth Elliott in this book.

As a 26 year old single male its hard to go out in public and see all the other young men with their beautiful girlfriends. Coworkers and friends asking me; "why I dont have a girlfriend?" and "when I am going to get married?" Feelings of loneliness and jealousy consume me. Both men and women are obsessed with finding their soulmates. Someone to love and be loved in return. As a man their is a lot of competition for women, since most men have the tendency to pursue the prettiest women. Women look their best to compete against other women and to get the attention of men. Women love to be pursued and men love to pursue. My problem has become worshipping womens beauty. Making women Idols of happiness a false illusion that when I have a woman in my life I will he happy and all my feelings of anxiety, loneliness and jealousy will go away. Placing women above God. But every time I pursue a woman it never works for me. I cant find the woman I am looking for. Not that the perfect woman exists but I wont settle for less. Then I learned from my own experience and from reading this book, God has someone in mind for me. Its just that we have to trust him and surrender over our will to him. We have to sacrifice our own desires and be obedient to God which is the hardest thing to do in this lifetime. But when you serve God with all your heart, when you least expect it love will come. Just wait on God he always delivers on time. Pray and fast. Seek first the kingdom of God and everything else will be given to you. Be patient and dont doubt or try to take the sterring wheel from God to steer your own course.

I used to follow Ms. Elliot's books when I was younger, being raised in a Christian household, until I realized that some of her advice was counterproductive in today's changing society. She suggests waiting for the guy to initiate in all situations, but I've found that this tends to discourage the nice, shy guys and attract the wrong ones. It seems a bit deceptive as well.

Elisabeth always delivers! These are interesting stories from past and present--love handled both wisely and foolishly, graciously and sinfully, with helpful and gentle but potent commentary from my favorite author. I had read this a few times in my 20s and bought this for a younger friend. While it is really good, it is not as amazing as Passion & Purity, and at 40 I didn't anticipate reading it again. But after purchasing the copy for my friend, my piecing through it turned into ordering a second copy, realizing I needed the message once again. Enjoying it.

The book was suggested to me as an encouragement. Instead, I found this 1996 book to extremely frustrating and seriously out of date - the filed of relational psychology has advanced since that time and we have that over-romanticized view of marriage and courting in Protestant Christian circles contributed to perpetuating patterns of codependency and love addiction.What i was hoping this book would do is offer encouragement to placing your hope in God; not placing your hope in that God will give you a spouse. This is not it, to my dismay; what this book really is - is an effort for the author to be encouraging by publishing letters from couples that have previously attended her seminars on purity. While moral purity in dating seemed like a new thing in 80's, 2010's Christian dating isn't that different - people are still confused on safe and healthy physical and emotional boundaries - but the book comes across as very dated when you can read how much the letters describe their struggles to choose and define moral purity as a highest goal while dating - and at the same time describe the waiting as a torment and end up marrying within few months.In other words, it's really a collection of stories and letters from early men and women in their early 20's who describe getting married after "dating" for less than few months - mixture of 2-3 months, 6 months, and less than a year. An example of a 33 year old man marrying a 21 year old; an early 20 year old woman being proposed to by a man who she just met few times in school.All the stories have one thing in common: very romanticized view of "being approached by the one" (for women) or "finding the one" (for men). While the writers claim that they are seemingly orchestrated by God, most of them involving marrying someone who just appear/one just meets without actually spending the time to get to know and understand, on a moment's notice. In some of the stories the over-spiritualization seems more like a cover up for lust, or a by product of love addiction where the person attempts to find fulfillment in a spouse rather in God first.Call me skeptical or cynical, but the testimonies read more like writings of newly marrieds who were fired up by author's previous book to try to give their own stories different slant - making up for patterns of codependency, love addiction, and over-romanticized view that marriage is a greatest gift from God and an only way to find love.SO - if you want to read some stories about sexual purity from late 1800's (yes), 1980's, this book will do. If you want actual reasons why one would choose to stay celibate and deal with struggles that come with those choices and be encouraged by their boldness to say "yes" to God while they are single, instead reading this book, I would suggest....Celibete Sx  Celibate Sx: Musings on Being Loved, Single, Twisted, and Holy  is FAR better in being encouraging, real, healthy, and pointing to God resource discussing topics of desire, struggling, loneliness. It's much more real, open, realistic, and level-headed - while being emotionally honest.Matt Chandler's  The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sx, and Redemption Pia Mellody on codependency or love addiction carry significantly more wisdom and tools to cultivate healthy patterns in relationships, dating, and marriage.  Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love  or  Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives Also, Melody Beattie's  Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself  describes variety of unhealthy patterns that are nearly carbon copies of stories that authors of the letters wrote.

I loved this book. I was at first just drawn to this book because of the author and because of the glimpse I saw in Amazon's preview. Now that I've had a chance to read it, I definitely love it. She along with others who've been kind enough to share their life's heartaches, sorrows, and joys are teaching me how much better it can be through God's way and the consequences of being too open to the world's suggestions. Definitely gives you something to think about. Fast shipping and the book was in great shape when I received it. I'd buy from the seller again if they had another book I'm interested in.

I'm a huge Elisabeth Elliot fan and have read many of her books. This one, for what it is, may be my favorite. This book is full of incredible, real-life love stories of people who waited for God's timing in their lives. Like all of Elliot's other works, this book makes you think and challenges you. I've read it 4 times and always find it encouraging. If you're feeling down and discouraged about waiting for the the right man or women, READ THIS BOOK. It will certainly lift your spirits.

I expected to get advice on male-female relationships and I did, but I learned so much more. This book really challenged me to surrender my will and to be open to God's will. IT WAS TOUGH. I never expected this book to convict me in such a way. The stories themselves were very entertaining and so I would find it hard to put the book down. It really was great. Much better than I expected.It also arrived earlier than expected which was good.

This book is the MUST buy for anyone waiting to know God's will in their life regarding marriage. It instils faith and hope into your heart, that even as God worked out every little detail for all the individuals mentioned He is able to do the same for you if you just leave it in His hands and wait for His timing.Read this book and inspire your heart to wait for God, because He has your best interests at heart! In time you will see how He can do the same for you as shown through all the examples!IT's written in Ms. Elliot's usual honest and undemonstrative style well-backed by scripture and timeless Godly principles.

I wish I had read this in my Teens and thus avoided lot of heartache. But we serve a God of "second chances" - He is so merciful & the experiences given in this book prove that over and over! I have now ordered the prequel. Its clear and concise advice, and I would recommend it to all embarking on relationships - also to those who want to do things "God's" way.

Excellent.

Es de los mejores libros que el leído excelente calidad, el costo es de acuerdo a la calidad y el contenido.