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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWe cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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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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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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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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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.
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If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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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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Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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