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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.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.
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The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
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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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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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Money holds terrible power when it is loved
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