What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
ELISABETH ELLIOTYou are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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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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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 impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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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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