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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.

Elisabeth Elliot

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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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