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).
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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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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