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• Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

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  Blessing, Hands, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.126, Revell

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• You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.

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  Christian, Believe, Doe

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• You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

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  Inspiring, Christ, Loses

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• Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.

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  Taken, Blessing, Forgotten

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• One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

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  Inspiring, Doe, Surrender

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• I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.

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  Christian, Prayer, Ocean

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.116, Gospel Light Publications

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• Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

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  Inspiring, Joy, Gateways

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• Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!

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  Jesus, Loneliness, Boys

  Elisabeth Elliot (1999). “Taking Flight: Wisdom for Your Journey”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.

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  Humble, Loss, Simple

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• If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

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  Letting Go, Mean, Maturity

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• God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.

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  Heart, Opposites, Discipline

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• Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.

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  Thinking, Together, May

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• Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

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  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  Elisabeth Elliot (2003). “A Path Through Suffering”, p.38, Revell

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• The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy. But we may be missing the fact that it is here, where we happen to be at this moment and not in another place or another time, that we may learn to love Him - here where it seems He is not at work, where He seems obscure or frightening, where He is not doing what we expected Him to do, where He is most absent. Here and nowhere else is the appointed place. If faith does not got to work here, it will not work at all.

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  Pain, Loneliness, Missing

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• A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

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  Believe, Waiting, Arms

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.149, Revell

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• Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

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  Pain, Father, Humility

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• It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.

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  Would Be, Way, Impossible

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• We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

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  Inspiring, Heart, Spiritual Disciplines

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.44, Revell

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• A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.

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  Men, Gentleman

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• If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

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  Inspiring, Christian, Heart

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• Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.

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  Feet, Heaven, Towels

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.122, Revell

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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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  Christian, Blessed, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.69, Revell

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• Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

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  Tests, Vain, Stunning

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• Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

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  Strong, Fall, Errors

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.142, Revell

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• A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.

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  Reflection, Joy, Littles

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.90, Revell

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