A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
ELISABETH ELLIOTIf my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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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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Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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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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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 asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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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