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’.
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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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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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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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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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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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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.
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