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

Elisabeth Elliot

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Enough God Grace Heart Quite
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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End God Myself Oneself Perfection Story
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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Happiness Himself Love Myself Obedience Thinking
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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Business God Himself Ocean Planning Prayer
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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Act Discipline Experience Feeling Mindset Worship
A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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Obedience Simplicity Struggle
Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
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God Guide Hide Himself Lying Place Search Security Yourself
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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Abandonment Desire Energy Life Live Myself Strength
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Commitment Forgiveness Marriage Perspective Relationship Sin Survive
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
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Circumstance Different Secret
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
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Discover God Greatness Heart Life Peace Simplicity Willing
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Fear Imagination Ourselves Rise
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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God Love Religious Yourself
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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Generosity Habit Life Morning Myself Offering Prayer Thankful Yourself
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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End God Himself Journey Place Stop Travel

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