Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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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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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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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.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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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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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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