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Book: These Strange Ashes
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Elisabeth Elliot _ These Strange Ashes
All the Scriptural metaphors about the death of the seed that falls into the ground, about losing one's life, about becoming the least in the kingdom, about the world's passing away-all these go on to something unspeakably better and more glorious. Loss and death are only the preludes to gain and life. It was a temptation to foreshorten the promises, to look for some prompt fulfillment of the loss-gain principle….
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Elisabeth Elliot _ These Strange Ashes
And so it often is. Faith, prayer, and obedience are our requirements. We are not offered in exchange immunity and exemption from the world's woes. What we are offered has to do with another world altogether.
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Elisabeth Elliot _ These Strange Ashes
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.
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Elisabeth Elliot _ These Strange Ashes
It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
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Elisabeth Elliot _ These Strange Ashes
Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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Elisabeth Elliot _ These Strange Ashes
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact."
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Elisabeth Elliot _ These Strange Ashes
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
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