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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

Elisabeth Elliot

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 ELLIOT

God Hard Life Time Yourself
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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Forever God Heart Heaven Himself Settle World
You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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Believe God Himself Necessary Understand
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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Discover God Greatness Heart Life Peace Simplicity Willing
If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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Faith Need Religious Uncertain Unknown Walk
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Action Feeling Myself
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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Better Big End Expectation God Willing
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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Happiness Himself Love Myself Obedience Thinking
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Deep Hard Time Inspirational Lesson Myself Water
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Character God Humble Myself Protection
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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Heart Himself Learning Obedience Prayer Slow Sorrow
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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Believe Experience Face God Greatness Happiness Heart Myself
I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.
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Business God Himself Ocean Planning Prayer
God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Better Desire Expectation God Heart Ourselves
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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Business Devil Element Himself Noise Peace Quiet
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Commitment Forgiveness Marriage Perspective Relationship Sin Survive

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