The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
ELISABETH ELLIOTTeach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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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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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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