Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
ELISABETH ELLIOTOur 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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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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.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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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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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
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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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We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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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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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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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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The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
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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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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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