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 ELLIOTThere is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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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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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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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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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 your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.
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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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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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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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