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No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

Elisabeth Elliot

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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
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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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It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God
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But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?
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Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?
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Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
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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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In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
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Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.
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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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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 deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.
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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'
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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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I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
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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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