Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
ELISABETH ELLIOTYou are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
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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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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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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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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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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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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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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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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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