I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe 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.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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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 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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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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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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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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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Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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