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When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.

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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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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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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that kind of man--glad that God made you a man, glad to shoulder the burden of manliness in a time when to do so will often bring contempt.
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Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
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It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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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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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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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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The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.
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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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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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Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
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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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The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
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The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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