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The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?
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When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.
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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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Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.
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Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing not to have what God is not willing to give. Furthermore, faith does not insist upon an explanation. It is enough to know His promises to give what is good-he knows so much more about us than we do.
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Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions...
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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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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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The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
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One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
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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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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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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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The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.
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Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.
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I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
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Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.
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Elisabeth Elliot
Born:
December 21, 1926
Died:
June 15, 2015
(aged 88)
Bio:
Elisabeth Elliot was a Christian author and speaker. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca of eastern Ecuador.
Known for:
Passion and Purity (1984)
Through Gates of Splendor (1957)
Let Me Be a Woman (1976)
Shadow of the Almighty (1958)
Keep a quiet heart (1995)
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