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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

Elisabeth Elliot

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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End God Himself Journey Place Stop Travel
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.
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Acceptance Affection Authority Beginning Understand
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
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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Heart Himself Learning Obedience Prayer Slow Sorrow
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Commitment Forgiveness Marriage Perspective Relationship Sin Survive
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
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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Appearance Believe Big Control God
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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Act Discipline Experience Feeling Mindset Worship
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Fear Imagination Ourselves Rise
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
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God Love Oneself Quiet Satisfaction Wait Willing Wisdom
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
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Goal Heart Purity Thinking Yourself
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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Different Fact Kind Myself Religion Woman
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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Forever God Heart Heaven Himself Settle World
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Action Feeling Myself
Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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God Himself Mercy Perspective Rejection Time

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