We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWhere does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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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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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 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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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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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
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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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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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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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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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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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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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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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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 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 are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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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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