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 ELLIOTGod will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
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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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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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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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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Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
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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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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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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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