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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTI’m convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
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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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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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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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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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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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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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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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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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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