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.
ELISABETH ELLIOTA prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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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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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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Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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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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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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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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