If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
ELISABETH ELLIOTTo 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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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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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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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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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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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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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