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 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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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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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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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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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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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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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