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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

Elisabeth Elliot

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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God Guide Hide Himself Lying Place Search Security Yourself
God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Better Desire Expectation God Heart Ourselves
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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Complain Gratitude Habit Life Possible Satisfaction Thankful
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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End God Himself Journey Place Stop Travel
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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Different Hard Imagination Limitation Nature Ourselves Reality Suffering Togetherness Tragedy Vision
When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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Endurance Interrupt Ourselves Planning Schedule Wasted
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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Beyond God Himself Holy Obedience Talk Trust
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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Come Government Peace Soul Teaching
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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Cruelty Forever Greatness Love Wrong
For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
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Generosity Habit Life Morning Myself Offering Prayer Thankful Yourself
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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Acceptance Affection Authority Beginning Understand
What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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Answer Enough God Prayer Urgent
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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Different Fact Kind Myself Religion Woman
It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Deep Impossible Love Sacrifice
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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Instant Life Oneself Surrender Time
If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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Faith Need Religious Uncertain Unknown Walk

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