A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIt is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
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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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The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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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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