The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
ELISABETH ELLIOTFear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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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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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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The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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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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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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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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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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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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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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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 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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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