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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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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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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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Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.
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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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He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.
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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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Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living
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New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.
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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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If God gave it to me, we say it's mine. I can do what I want with it. No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.
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Money holds terrible power when it is loved
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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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It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God
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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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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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Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.
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