God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
ELISABETH ELLIOTYou are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
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God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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