Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIt is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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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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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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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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Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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