It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
ELISABETH ELLIOTFaith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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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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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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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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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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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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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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