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 ELLIOTRemind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
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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 believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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