A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Teach 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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.
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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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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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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 has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need 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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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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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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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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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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