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The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.
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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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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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By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
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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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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.
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Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.
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The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.
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Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.
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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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Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment.
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The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.
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