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The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.
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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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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
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I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.
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Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
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God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.
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The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
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A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen you only know what you have to do now.
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Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.
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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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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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves
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Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living
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Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!
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Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.
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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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In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
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Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
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