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Leah Byrd

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“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 Elliot

tags: age, aging, christian, god, inspirational, jesus, old, stages, youth

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“The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

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“God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, "If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross." There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, "God has no right to do this to five men unless...”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Through Gates of Splendor

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“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 Elliot

tags: christ, christian, god, hard-times, jesus, love, purification, trials, will-of-god

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