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

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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment.
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We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
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We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.
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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.
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Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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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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Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.
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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.
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The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
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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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If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.
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Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?
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Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
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