A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
ELISABETH ELLIOTA quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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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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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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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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Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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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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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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