"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."

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

Elisabeth Elliot

#Children Quotes #Heart Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.”
“When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.”
“Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.”
“A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.”
“When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?”
“If your commitment is to being present, then there will come a time when being present becomes your natural state. The present moment becomes your home. You will have short excursions into the world of the mind, but you never go so far into the mind that you get lost there.”
“Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.”

Source : "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". edition.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.
“We start from Kuwait, and to Kuwait we end. Anyone but that, is not from Kuwait, and Kuwait is not from them.”

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