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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWhen obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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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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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 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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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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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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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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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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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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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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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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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