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.
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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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I’m convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God, or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
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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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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
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We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
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God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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