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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More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
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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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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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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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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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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 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 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.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived – not always looked forward to as though the “real” living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.
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