Elisabeth Elliot Quotes About Inspiring
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
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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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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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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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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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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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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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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 denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
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Money holds terrible power when it is loved
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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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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
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By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
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To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
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I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.
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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
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The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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