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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTYou are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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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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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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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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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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Faith’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.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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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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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 God’s refusals are His mercies.
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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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