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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.

Elisabeth Elliot

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Elisabeth Elliot
Age: 88 †
Born: 1926
Born: December 21
Died: 2015
Died: June 15
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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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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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Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living
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Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.
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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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Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!
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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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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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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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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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Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?
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There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.
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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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Money holds terrible power when it is loved
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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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No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
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One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.
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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
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