No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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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.
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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 secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
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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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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