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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWhat I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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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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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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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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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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