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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.

Elisabeth Elliot

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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Abandonment Desire Energy Life Live Myself Strength
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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Act Discipline Experience Feeling Mindset Worship
It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Deep Impossible Love Sacrifice
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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End God Myself Oneself Perfection Story
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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Myself Need Reminder Talk
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
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Better Father God Order Willing
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Action Feeling Myself
God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Better Desire Expectation God Heart Ourselves
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Enough God Grace Heart Quite
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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Complain Gratitude Habit Life Possible Satisfaction Thankful
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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Endurance Interrupt Ourselves Planning Schedule Wasted
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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God Oneself Thinking Uncertain Wait Willing
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Commitment Forgiveness Marriage Perspective Relationship Sin Survive
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Fear Imagination Ourselves Rise
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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God Love Religious Yourself
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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Eliminate Faith Place Question

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