A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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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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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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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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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 never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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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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We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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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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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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