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 mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus. - Elisabeth Elliot
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
- Elisabeth Elliot
A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience. - Elisabeth Elliot
A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances. - Elisabeth Elliot
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in pra… - Elisabeth Elliot
This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in pra…
The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next … - Elisabeth Elliot
The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next …
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. - 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.
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. - Elisabeth Elliot
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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… - Elisabeth Elliot
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…
Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there. - Elisabeth Elliot
Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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