Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
ELISABETH ELLIOTA quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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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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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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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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
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