It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
ELISABETH ELLIOTOf one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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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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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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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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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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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Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
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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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