Elisabeth Elliot's quotes ring truer to me than nearly anything written save Scripture. There's something about her personal experience that has led her to proclaim each of these wise sayings that strikes a chord in my heart. Future self, when the world is falling in about your ears and you are tired of waiting; when the road seems too twisty and turn-y and you can't decide which fork is the right one; when God closes doors and denies you what you thought was good, read these and take heart.
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“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."
“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.”
“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 to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.”
“Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.”
“Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.'”
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