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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIf it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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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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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.
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I’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.
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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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