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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIt is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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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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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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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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 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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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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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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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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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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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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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