Elisabeth Elliot on cruelty
Elisabeth Elliot66 quotes“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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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!
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Carisa DownsCarisa Downs Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we’re told that? God is mysterious.
Sam HarrisSam Harris In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson I turned down Prince William’s invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting!
PinkPink God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt
