Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
ELISABETH ELLIOT
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Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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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Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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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