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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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marriage
women
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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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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good-and-evil
love
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth.
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christ
christian
god
inspirational
jesus
lord
lordship
love
will
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.
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salvation
sanctification
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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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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quiet
solitude
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy."
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elisabeth-elliot
suffering
the-cross
these-strange-ashes
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Very often (nearly always, I'm afraid) when I come to church my feelings are uppermost in my mind. This is natural. We are human, we are "selves," and it takes no effort at all to feel. But worship is not feeling. 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. Finding myself scattered in all directions ..
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory."
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faith
glory
god
hearts
letting-go
life
thankfulness
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
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failure
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. "Young woman," said he. "You don't reconcile friends"
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christianity
responsibility
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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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 solitude can be turned into prayer.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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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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martyrdom
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.
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salvation
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things'.
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passion
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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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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christianity
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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b0f529c
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God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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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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Elisabeth Elliot |
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The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time--His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?
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legalism
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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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 is the man that walketh not in that.
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disciplined-christian
elisabeth-elliot
friends
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Faith is a decision.It is not a deduction from the facts around us. We would not look at the world of today and logically conclude that God loves us. It doesn't always look as though He does.Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lion's den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things always work. It is an act of the will, a choice, based on the ..
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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The women of the Band were learning that if the Lord of Glory took a towel and knelt on the floor to wash the dusty feet of His disciples, then no work, even the relentless and often messy routine of caring for squalling babies, is demeaning. To offer it up to the Lord of Glory transforms it into a holy task.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot"
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eternity
jim-elliot
shadow-of-the-almighty
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Are we so childish (I do not say childlike) as to think that a God who could scheme a Jesus-plan would lead poor pilgrims into situations they could not bear?
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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We are always held in the love of God. We are never wholly at the mercy of other people - they are only "second causes," and no matter how many second or third or fiftieth causes seem to be in control of what happens to us, it is God who is in charge, He who holds the keys, He who casts the lot finally into the lap. Trusting Him, then, requires that I leave some things to be decided by others. I must learn to relinquish the control I might ..
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The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God. But, as in the case of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, the sacrifice itself is not always finally required. What is required is obedience.
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Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
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materialism
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
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christian
help
inspirational
love
selfless-love
selfless-service
selflessness
service
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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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 does make me a different kind of woman.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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If the life of a man or woman on earth is to bear the fragrance of heaven the winds of God must blow on that life, winds not always balmy from the south, but fierce winds from the north that chill the very marrow.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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The other wives and I talked together one night about the possibility of becoming widows. What would we do? God gave us peace of heart, and confidence that whatever might happen, His Word would hold. We knew that 'when He Putteth forth His sheep, He goeth before them.' God's leading was unmistakable up to this point. Each of us knew when we married our husbands that there would never be any question about who came first -- God and His work ..
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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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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maturity
training
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answer--a sign of the love of the Lord.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose people.' She had a vision of holy living. She would not deviate from that no matter how well-established, rational, and practical the ways of older missions seemed to be.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Steadfastness, that is holding on; Patience, that is holding back; Expectancy, that is holding the face up; Obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; Listening, that is holding quiet and still as to hear.
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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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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holiness
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Money holds terrible power when it is loved
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christianity
money
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Elisabeth Elliot |