Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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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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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
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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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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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
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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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The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God, or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
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