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.
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 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 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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A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived – not always looked forward to as though the “real” living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.
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