Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness and take it as if today was the last day of your life. Don't be looking constantly to the future.
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.
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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
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Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
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Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.
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We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.
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The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
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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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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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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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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
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I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Action that is clearly right needs no justification.
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Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
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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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We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.