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A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

Elisabeth Elliot

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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Body God Heart Ourselves
We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
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Evidence God Guide Hands Himself Imagination Promise
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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End God Myself Oneself Perfection Story
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Deep Hard Time Inspirational Lesson Myself Water
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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Goal Heart Purity Thinking Yourself
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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Act Choice Death Errors Feeling Forget Necessary Obedience Possible
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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Instant Life Oneself Surrender Time
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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Forever God Heart Heaven Himself Settle World
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Character God Humble Myself Protection
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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Day Faith Life Live Reality Responsibility Time
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Change Impatience Joy Ourselves Peace
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
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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Eliminate Faith Place Question
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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God Love Religious Yourself
If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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God Hands Life Myself Safety Surrender
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

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

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