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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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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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By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
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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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