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so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts ... — Elisabeth Elliot
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.
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Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
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Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.
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Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
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A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
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Loneliness is a required course for leadership.
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Learning to pray is learning to trust the wisdom, the power, and the love of our Heavenly Father, always so far beyond our dreams.
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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A woman ought to be honest with a man who shows interest in her.
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How long Lord must I wait?Nevermind child, trust me. — Elisabeth Elliot
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot
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The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
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Many deaths must go into us reaching that measure, many letting go's.
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Men like mystery. They don't want to be told everything woman are thinking.
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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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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 grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
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The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
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I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to "curtail the friendship".
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The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
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Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard
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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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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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Insistence that both lead means there won't be any dance.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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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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If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.
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Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.
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I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.
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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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By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
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Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
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If He is God, He is still in charge.
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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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You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.
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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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Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
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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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Self-pity is ... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
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It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
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A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.
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The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
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God gives allGod asks all — Elisabeth Elliot
It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
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Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.
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It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
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The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
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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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Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
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I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.
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The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
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If he had loved her he would have pursued her.
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God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.
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When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.
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His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.
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Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
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If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him.
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We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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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 withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.
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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.
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A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Money holds terrible power when it is loved
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The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God's.
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Is it more important to understand than to obey? Is it more important to me to know than to believe?
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Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.
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Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.
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Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
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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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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
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In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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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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Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions ...
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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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Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
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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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He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.
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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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We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.
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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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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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Matters of the heart still can never put us beyond His love and redemption.
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Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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