Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.
Elisabeth ElliotTags: love god jesus christian christ trials hard-times will-of-god purification
In seasons of hiddenness our sense of value is disrupted, stripped of what "others" affirmed us to be. In this season God intends to give us an unshakable identity in Him, that no amount of adoration nor rejection can alter.
Alicia Britt CholeTags: inspirational identity god jesus christian value hiddenness
George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
Elisabeth ElliotTags: inspirational age god youth old jesus christian aging stages
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 ElliotTags: inspirational god leisure work jesus christian fun rest blessing
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.
Elisabeth ElliotTags: inspirational love god will jesus christian lord christ affections lordship
When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
Elisabeth ElliotTags: life inspirational purpose god plans christian schedule will-of-god
Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
Elisabeth ElliotTags: inspirational love purpose god trust jesus christian chaos
Tags: truth devil evil god good christian catholic good-and-evil truths catholic-author gadfly hard-truths tough-wisdom
You cannot function in an unction you don't take action on.
Ifeanyi Enoch OnuohaTags: humor inspirational christian higherlife
I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.
Soul SurferTags: christian bethany-hamilton soul-surfer
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