A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
ELISABETH ELLIOTYou 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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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 have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
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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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
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If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.
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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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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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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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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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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