When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
ELISABETH ELLIOTGod will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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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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I’m convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
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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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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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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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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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