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 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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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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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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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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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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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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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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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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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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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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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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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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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 cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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