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.
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
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.
He is always doing something–the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.
The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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).
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.
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?
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn’t reciprocate, and end up in confusion.
The question is simply,’Who is your master?’Once that’s settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.
God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.
The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.
But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.
But you will find yourself disarmed utterly, and your accusing spirit transformed into loving forgiveness the moment you remember that you did, in fact, marry only a sinner, and so did he.
By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
…Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, “Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be — let me be a woman?
God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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.
Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian’s concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.
Christ is sufficient. We do not need “support groups” for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.
Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the image is marred, but it is a divine image nonetheless, capable of redemption and therefore to be held in honor.
His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I’m sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. “Young woman,” said he. “You don’t reconcile friends
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.
Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.
It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the “Rock-counsciousness” of the promise given her, “He goeth before.
The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.
Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
Some of God’s greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.” -Jim Elliot
Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.
God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.
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.
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.
Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. 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.
I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.