Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
ELISABETH ELLIOTWe 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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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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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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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The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
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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.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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