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.
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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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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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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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
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Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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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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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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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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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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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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