It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
ELISABETH ELLIOTFaith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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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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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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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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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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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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Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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I 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.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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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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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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I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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