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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.

Elisabeth Elliot

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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Answer Enough God Prayer Urgent
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Enough God Grace Heart Quite
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Action Feeling Myself
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Character God Humble Myself Protection
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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Appearance Believe Big Control God
Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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Myself Need Reminder Talk
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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Abandonment Desire Energy Life Live Myself Strength
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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Complain Gratitude Habit Life Possible Satisfaction Thankful
It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Deep Impossible Love Sacrifice
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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Forever God Heart Heaven Himself Settle World
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Commitment Forgiveness Marriage Perspective Relationship Sin Survive
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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Business Eyes Future Myself Present See Spiritual
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Change Impatience Joy Ourselves Peace
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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Cruelty Forever Greatness Love Wrong
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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God Love Religious Yourself
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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Act Choice Death Errors Feeling Forget Necessary Obedience Possible

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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