Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThere is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.
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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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