What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
ELISABETH ELLIOTNo marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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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.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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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.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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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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God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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I’m convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
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