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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTI asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
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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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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
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We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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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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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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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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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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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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