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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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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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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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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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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?
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In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
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Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard
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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.
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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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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
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The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His divine commission and the stern demands of His incarnation. Never was there a word or even a look of complaint.
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