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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.

Elisabeth Elliot

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Change Impatience Joy Ourselves Peace
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Gentle Love Man Relationship Requirement Woman
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.
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Confidence Control Fear Future Hands Intimidation Ourselves Strong
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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God Material Need Promise Requirement
If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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Faith Need Religious Uncertain Unknown Walk
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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Day Faith Life Live Reality Responsibility Time
When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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Endurance Interrupt Ourselves Planning Schedule Wasted
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Fear Imagination Ourselves Rise
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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God Love Oneself Quiet Satisfaction Wait Willing Wisdom
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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God Guide Hide Himself Lying Place Search Security Yourself
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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Come Government Peace Soul Teaching
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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Evidence Faith Ourselves See Stunning
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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Business Devil Element Himself Noise Peace Quiet
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Character God Humble Myself Protection
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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End God Myself Oneself Perfection Story
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

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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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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