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 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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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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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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We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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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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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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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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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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I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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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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