If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWe cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
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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 willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
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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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Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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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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Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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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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