To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
ELISABETH ELLIOTOur 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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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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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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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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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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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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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