Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
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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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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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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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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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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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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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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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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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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Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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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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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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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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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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