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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

Elisabeth Elliot
Heart, Giving, Grace

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

Elisabeth Elliot
Prayer, Giving, Needs
Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.157, Gospel Light Publications

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Elisabeth Elliot
Giving, Missionary, Ecuador
"Shadow of the Almighty". Book by Elisabeth Elliot, 1958.

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

Elisabeth Elliot
Father, Order, Giving
Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life”, p.46, Revell

I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

Elisabeth Elliot
Opportunity, Giving, Opportunities To Learn

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.

Elisabeth Elliot
Children, Heart, Giving

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Elisabeth Elliot
Inspiring, Heart, Giving
Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books

Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing not to have what God is not willing to give. Furthermore, faith does not insist upon an explanation. It is enough to know His promises to give what is good-he knows so much more about us than we do.

Elisabeth Elliot
Faith, Father, Giving
Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ's sake. Amen.

Elisabeth Elliot
Heart, Rocks, Giving
Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.191, Gospel Light Publications

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.

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

Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.

Elisabeth Elliot
Commitment, Giving, Wife
Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.154, Revell

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

Elisabeth Elliot
Helping Others, Giving, Doe
Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life”, p.58, Revell

God gives all God asks all

Elisabeth Elliot
Giving, Asks

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

Elisabeth Elliot
Prayer, Thinking, Giving
Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

Elisabeth Elliot
Maturity, Giving, Passion And Purity

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

Elisabeth Elliot
Heart, Hands, Giving

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

Elisabeth Elliot
Acceptance, Giving, Given

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