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.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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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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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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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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Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
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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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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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