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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Elisabeth Elliot

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Enough God Grace Heart Quite
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
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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Abandonment Desire Energy Life Live Myself Strength
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Gentle Love Man Relationship Requirement Woman
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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Believe Experience Face God Greatness Happiness Heart Myself
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Character God Humble Myself Protection
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Change Impatience Joy Ourselves Peace
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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Business God Himself Ocean Planning Prayer
I’m convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
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Design Himself Learning Life Myself Opportunity
There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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Death Himself Live Worth
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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Blessing Care Discipline God Himself Man Seek Walk
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
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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Creation God Love Place Purpose Trust Yourself
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
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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Ourselves Scripture Thinking
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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Heart Himself Learning Obedience Prayer Slow Sorrow

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