Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
ELISABETH ELLIOTHeaven 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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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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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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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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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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