If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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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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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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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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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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