What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
ELISABETH ELLIOTYou are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
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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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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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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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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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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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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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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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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I’m convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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