If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
ELISABETH ELLIOTNo marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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 prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
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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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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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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