We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIt 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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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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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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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I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
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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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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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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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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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