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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

Elisabeth Elliot

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Come Government Peace Soul Teaching
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Change Impatience Joy Ourselves Peace
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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Blessing Care Discipline God Himself Man Seek Walk
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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Better Big End Expectation God Willing
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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Cruelty Forever Greatness Love Wrong
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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Add Choice God Government Life Principle Willing World
Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
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Acceptance Affection Authority Beginning Understand
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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Day Faith Life Live Reality Responsibility Time
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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Design Himself Learning Life Myself Opportunity
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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Complain Gratitude Habit Life Possible Satisfaction Thankful
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Character God Humble Myself Protection
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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Different Fact Kind Myself Religion Woman
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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God Material Need Promise Requirement
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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Body God Heart Ourselves
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Deep Hard Time Inspirational Lesson Myself Water
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Fear Imagination Ourselves Rise

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