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I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.

Elisabeth Elliot

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Goal Heart Purity Thinking Yourself
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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Ourselves Scripture Thinking
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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Instant Life Oneself Surrender Time
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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Happiness Himself Love Myself Obedience Thinking
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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Hands Leaving Wound Yourself
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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Different Hard Imagination Limitation Nature Ourselves Reality Suffering Togetherness Tragedy Vision
Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
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Acceptance Affection Authority Beginning Understand
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
When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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Endurance Interrupt Ourselves Planning Schedule Wasted
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
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Heart Himself Learning Obedience Prayer Slow Sorrow
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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Different Fact Kind Myself Religion Woman
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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Failure Healing Heaven Himself Order Recognition
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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Discover God Greatness Heart Life Peace Simplicity Willing
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
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
The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived – not always looked forward to as though the “real” living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.
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Day Faith Life Live Reality Responsibility Time

I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.

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I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.

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