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?
ELISABETH ELLIOTFaith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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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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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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