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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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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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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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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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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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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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