If 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!
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More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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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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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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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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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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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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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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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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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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