Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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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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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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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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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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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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