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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.

Elisabeth Elliot

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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Day Faith Life Live Reality Responsibility Time
Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
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Failure Healing Heaven Himself Order Recognition
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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God Love Religious Yourself
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.
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Act Choice Death Errors Feeling Forget Necessary Obedience Possible
We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
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Evidence God Guide Hands Himself Imagination Promise
Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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Confidence Control Fear Future Hands Intimidation Ourselves Strong
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Change Impatience Joy Ourselves Peace
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Goal Heart Purity Thinking Yourself
It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Deep Impossible Love Sacrifice
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
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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Believe God Himself Necessary Understand
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Gentle Love Man Relationship Requirement Woman
A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
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Believe God Himself Love Peace Resistance Spirit Strength Wait
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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End God Myself Oneself Perfection Story
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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God Material Need Promise Requirement
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Fear Imagination Ourselves Rise

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.

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