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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.

Elisabeth Elliot

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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Abandonment Desire Energy Life Live Myself Strength
What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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Answer Enough God Prayer Urgent
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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Myself Need Reminder Talk
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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Confidence Control Fear Future Hands Intimidation Ourselves Strong
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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Acceptance Affection Authority Beginning Understand
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Commitment Forgiveness Marriage Perspective Relationship Sin Survive
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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Better Big End Expectation God Willing
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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Business Devil Element Himself Noise Peace Quiet
If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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God Hands Life Myself Safety Surrender
Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
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Creation God Love Place Purpose Trust Yourself
Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
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Failure Healing Heaven Himself Order Recognition
We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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Ourselves Scripture Thinking
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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Business Eyes Future Myself Present See Spiritual
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Circumstance Different Secret
We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
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Evidence God Guide Hands Himself Imagination Promise
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
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Different Fact Kind Myself Religion Woman

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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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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