Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
ELISABETH ELLIOTGod never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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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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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.
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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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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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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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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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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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The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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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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