No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
ELISABETH ELLIOTGod has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
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If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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