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A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.
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The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
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Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing not to have what God is not willing to give. Furthermore, faith does not insist upon an explanation. It is enough to know His promises to give what is good-he knows so much more about us than we do.
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Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.
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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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Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
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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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Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.
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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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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
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There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.
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I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry making out and sleeping around, we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.
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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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The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.
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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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Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?
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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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