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Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

Elisabeth Elliot

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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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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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Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ's sake. Amen.
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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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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves
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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
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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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Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
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The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
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Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.
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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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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- severe mercies at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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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.
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This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.
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We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
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Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.
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