I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Elisabeth Elliot on abandonment
Elisabeth Elliot66 quotes“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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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 ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot 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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When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful…the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever – do not abandon the works of your hands.
AnonymousAnonymous Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
Tom PettyTom Petty Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
John EldredgeJohn Eldredge There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
Claude BernardClaude Bernard If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears, a son, he is called the son of a re married woman .
Guru NanakGuru Nanak I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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