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.
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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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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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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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
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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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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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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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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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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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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