I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
ELISABETH ELLIOTFear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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