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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!

Elisabeth Elliot

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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Different Fact Kind Myself Religion Woman
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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Believe Experience Face God Greatness Happiness Heart Myself
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Instant Life Oneself Surrender Time
God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Better Desire Expectation God Heart Ourselves
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Cruelty Forever Greatness Love Wrong
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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

God Oneself Thinking Uncertain Wait Willing
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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Blessing Care Discipline God Himself Man Seek Walk
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Deep Hard Time Inspirational Lesson Myself Water
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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Heart Himself Learning Obedience Prayer Slow Sorrow
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Discover God Greatness Heart Life Peace Simplicity Willing
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Enough God Grace Heart Quite
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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Business God Himself Ocean Planning Prayer
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Body God Heart Ourselves
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?’
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Generosity Habit Life Morning Myself Offering Prayer Thankful Yourself
There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Death Himself Live Worth

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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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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