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!
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe 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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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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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We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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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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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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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Our 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.
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