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We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

Elisabeth Elliot

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 Oneself Thinking Uncertain Wait Willing
There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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Death Himself Live Worth
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
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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Appearance Believe Big Control God
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Deep Hard Time Inspirational Lesson Myself Water
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
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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God Material Need Promise Requirement
Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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Evidence Faith Ourselves See Stunning
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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God Love Religious Yourself
A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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Obedience Simplicity Struggle
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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End God Himself Journey Place Stop Travel
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Goal Heart Purity Thinking Yourself
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Character God Humble Myself Protection
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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Instant Life Oneself Surrender Time
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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Business God Himself Ocean Planning Prayer
Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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God Himself Mercy Perspective Rejection Time

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