When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWe cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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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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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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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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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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