If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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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 your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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 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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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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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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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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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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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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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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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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