If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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 your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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