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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTGod has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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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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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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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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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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