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“Loneliness is a required course for leadership.”

Quote by Elisabeth Elliot

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Elisabeth Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot was an American author known for her descriptions of missionary life and profound explorations of Christian faith. Her works, including 'In This Day of Grace' and 'Passion and Purity', have influenced countless readers. more

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“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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“Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.”

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“I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.”

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Book:On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World

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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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“We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.”

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Book:A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk

Source: A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk

“One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.”

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Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.”

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“We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.”

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Book:God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life

Source: God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life

“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 a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ”

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“I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble - we are actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us!.. Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty.”

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