I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWhen obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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 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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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.
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To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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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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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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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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