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
ELISABETH ELLIOTWhen obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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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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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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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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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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 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 my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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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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Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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