I’m convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
ELISABETH ELLIOTSometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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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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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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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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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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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.
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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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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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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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