Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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God gives all God asks all
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.
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The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.
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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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Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.
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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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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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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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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.
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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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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 you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.
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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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Action that is clearly right needs no justification.
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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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Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
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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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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
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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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You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.