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

Elisabeth Elliot

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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Discover God Greatness Heart Life Peace Simplicity Willing
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Enough God Grace Heart Quite
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Circumstance Different Secret
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
There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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Death Himself Live Worth
The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God, or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
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Add Choice God Government Life Principle Willing World
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Change Impatience Joy Ourselves Peace
God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Better Desire Expectation God Heart Ourselves
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Character God Humble Myself Protection
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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Better Father God Order Willing
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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Eliminate Faith Place Question
For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
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Generosity Habit Life Morning Myself Offering Prayer Thankful Yourself
Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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Myself Need Reminder Talk
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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God Guide Hide Himself Lying Place Search Security Yourself
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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God Hands Life Myself Safety Surrender
Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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God Himself Mercy Perspective Rejection Time

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