If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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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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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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The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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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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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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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.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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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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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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