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Perhaps some future day, Lord, Thy strong hand
Will lead me to the place where I must stand
Utterly alone.
Alone, O Gracious Lover, but for Thee;
I shall be satisfied if I can see
Jesus only.
I do not know Thy plan for years to come,
Mt spirit finds in Thee its perfect home,
Sufficiency.
Lord, all my desire is before Thee now,
Lean on, no matter where, no matter how—
I trust in Thee.
— Elisabeth Elliot (via juliannejoy)
- 5 days ago
- 4
"But the things that we feel most deeply, we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God."
— Elisabeth Elliot (via untilonlyloveremains)
- 5 days ago
- 261
"I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done."
— Elisabeth Elliot (via juliannejoy)
- 5 days ago
- 8
Outlive Your Life.: Help Me Not To Want So Much
“From graduation from college at twenty-one until I was twenty-six I waited for Jim Elliot, wishing that I wouldn’t want him so much. I had no promises from him or from God that we would ever be married, but I was hungry for him—no, I was ravenous. Instead of taking away my appetite, the Lord…
- 5 days ago
- 3
"To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle. She is gracious. She is godly and she is giving… You and I, if we are women, have the gift of femininity. Very often it is obscured, just as the image of God is obscured in all of us… The more womanly we are, the more manly men will be, and the more God is glorified. As I say to you women, ‘Be women. Be only women. Be real women in obedience to God.’"
— Elisabeth Elliot (via thetreesareactuallyquitelovely)
- 5 days ago
- 507
"Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living."
— Jim Elliot (via exposingdeception)
- 5 days ago
- 5
Pure Blyss.: There he goes again, I thought, quoting Scripture. Jim Elliot was a...
There he goes again, I thought, quoting Scripture. Jim Elliot was a walking Bible. Knew it backwards and forwards, and was forever nailing me with verses exactly suited to pierce the very marrow.
“Ever think about that one, Betts?” he said. “Singleness is a gift. ‘To those who are unmarried…
- 5 days ago
- 28
"My heart was saying, “Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long.” The Lord was answering, “I must teach you to long for something better."
— Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity (via leahley)
(Source: breanna-lynn)
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