A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIf your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take 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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