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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTFaith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.
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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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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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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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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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