When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
ELISABETH ELLIOTHeaven 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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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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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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God, or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
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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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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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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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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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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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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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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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 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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