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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.

Elisabeth Elliot

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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Happiness Himself Love Myself Obedience Thinking
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Enough God Grace Heart Quite
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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God Material Need Promise Requirement
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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Answer Enough God Prayer Urgent
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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Business Eyes Future Myself Present See Spiritual
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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Act Discipline Experience Feeling Mindset Worship
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Change Impatience Joy Ourselves Peace
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Circumstance Different Secret
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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Hands Leaving Wound Yourself
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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Cruelty Forever Greatness Love Wrong
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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Endurance Interrupt Ourselves Planning Schedule Wasted
Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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Myself Need Reminder Talk
I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.
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Business God Himself Ocean Planning Prayer
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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Instant Life Oneself Surrender Time
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
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Different Hard Imagination Limitation Nature Ourselves Reality Suffering Togetherness Tragedy Vision
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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Acceptance Affection Authority Beginning Understand
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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Heart Himself Learning Obedience Prayer Slow Sorrow
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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Generosity Habit Life Morning Myself Offering Prayer Thankful Yourself
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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God Hard Life Time Yourself
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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Creation God Love Place Purpose Trust Yourself
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Gentle Love Man Relationship Requirement Woman
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Goal Heart Purity Thinking Yourself
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Action Feeling Myself
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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End God Myself Oneself Perfection Story
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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Blessing Care Discipline God Himself Man Seek Walk
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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Day Faith Life Live Reality Responsibility Time
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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Believe God Himself Necessary Understand

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