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From Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
- 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.…
- Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on…
- Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly.…
- Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of…
- God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
- Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
- 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…
- God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is…
- Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is…
- He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is…
- The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its…
- Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did…
- 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…
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