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Them Quotes by Elisabeth Elliot
- All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and…
- 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…
- One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two…
- But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly…
- A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the…
- 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…
- Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.
- Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to…
- Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
- Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
- 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…
- She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.
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