Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of accepting life's events with peace, trusting that a higher will is at play.
Elisabeth Elliot's quote encourages individuals to approach each experience in life, whether positive or negative, with a sense of inner peace and unwavering belief that a greater force is guiding their path. It suggests that embracing life's challenges and uncertainties with confidence and tranquility can foster resilience and a deeper understanding of one's journey.
In practice
In a speech on resilience, one might quote this to emphasize the power of inner peace in facing hardships.
We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?
Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, βlet me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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.
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily; 'really you are very dull!' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.
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