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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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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 deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.
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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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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.
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When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.
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If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.
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We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
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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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Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
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By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
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Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.
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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
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Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
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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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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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Loneliness is a required course for leadership.
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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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