A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
ELISABETH ELLIOTCruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
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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 my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God, or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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 deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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