We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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 will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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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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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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 will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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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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