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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

Elisabeth Elliot

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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Faith Need Religious Uncertain Unknown Walk
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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Better Father God Order Willing
I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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Believe Experience Face God Greatness Happiness Heart Myself
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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Cruelty Forever Greatness Love Wrong
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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Business Eyes Future Myself Present See Spiritual
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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Design Himself Learning Life Myself Opportunity
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Gentle Love Man Relationship Requirement Woman
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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Hands Leaving Wound Yourself
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Commitment Forgiveness Marriage Perspective Relationship Sin Survive
It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Deep Impossible Love Sacrifice
Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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Confidence Control Fear Future Hands Intimidation Ourselves Strong
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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End God Himself Journey Place Stop Travel
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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Blessing Care Discipline God Himself Man Seek Walk
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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Add Choice God Government Life Principle Willing World
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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Business Devil Element Himself Noise Peace Quiet
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
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God Love Oneself Quiet Satisfaction Wait Willing Wisdom

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

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