We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
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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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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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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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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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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