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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTOur Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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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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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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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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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 deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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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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Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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