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Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.
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The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.
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No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
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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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To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
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The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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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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She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
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By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
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It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
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Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
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