Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
ELISABETH ELLIOTFaith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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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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