Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived – not always looked forward to as though the “real” living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived – not always looked forward to as though the “real” living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.
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Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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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 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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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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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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