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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTFear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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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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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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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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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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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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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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