Mini Book Review #11: Give Me This Mountain, by Helen Roseveare.
Dr. Helen Roseveare, missionary doctor to the Congo, wrote this memoir with great humility and a sense of humor. She often tells stories that present her at her worst, and it’s precisely this honesty that makes her story so powerful. So many times I could see myself as she admits her own pride, frustrations, or loneliness. Throughout this story, which includes a chapter on her five months of imprisonment by a Congolese rebel army, one sees the hand of God.
This is the book to get if you have limited time but need the encouraging words of a woman of God who has given her all for God. It’s a quick, convicting read.
Favorite Quotes from Give Me This Mountain
“It didn’t really matter what people thought. It didn’t matter what it cost. One just had to be all out for Him.”
p. 55
“I fell into most of the traps possible. I made myself almost ill through my preoccupation with my own holiness, or rather lack of it! It took a long time to recover from that mistake which need never have been made. Of course, I can never be holy! How simple, when one realizes that the Lord knows me as I am in all my weakness, loves me, and waits to impart himself, his own holiness, his life, living in me…The Lord allowed a growing realization of failure in each of the different roles mentioned, in order that he himself might fill the vacuum. He longed that I would become more preoccupied with Him and less with myself.”
p. 57-58
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