We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for … - Elisabeth Elliot

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Elisabeth Elliot

We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

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

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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

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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.

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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.

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