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.
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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I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.
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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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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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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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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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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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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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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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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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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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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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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It 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.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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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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