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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTUntil the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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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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The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God, or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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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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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
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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.
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