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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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