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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWhere 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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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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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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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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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A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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