Nothing was harder for a woman in love to endure and nothing was stronger proof of the character of the man than his restraint of power...
this is one of the lines from the book Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot. just wanted to share some of the lines that somehow struck me... ^_^ it made me realize some things.. hehehe..
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.
There must be a splitting and a breaking in order for a bud to form.
There is no ongoing spiritual life without this process of letting go. At the precise point where we refuse, growth stops. If we hold tightly to anything given to us, unwilling to let it go when the time comes to let it go or unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used, we stunt the growth of the soul.
It's easy to make a mistake here. "If God gave it to me," we say, "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is, that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer it back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of --if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.
The more you perceive God's purpose in your life, the less terrible will the losses seem.
Love interprets things in favor of the one loved. . .There's nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and its endurance.
Love must be patient when it is tempted (by the delays of other people) to be impatient. Love must not be selfish, even if other people are. Love does not take offence, though people are offensive sometimes. There are wrongs, but love won't keep score. There are things to be faced, but nothing love can't face, things to try love's faith, discourage its hope, and call for its endurance; but it keeps right on trusting; hoping, and enduring. Love never ends.
and this one's a sweet line from Jim Elliot in one of his letter so Elisabeth
Good-night, my brave lover, and may the God who loves you stronger than I stand guard over you through the night.
May God preserve us for His time.
Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation.. the old has gone.. the new has come...
-Passion and Purity
this is one of the lines from the book Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot. just wanted to share some of the lines that somehow struck me... ^_^ it made me realize some things.. hehehe..
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.
There must be a splitting and a breaking in order for a bud to form.
There is no ongoing spiritual life without this process of letting go. At the precise point where we refuse, growth stops. If we hold tightly to anything given to us, unwilling to let it go when the time comes to let it go or unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used, we stunt the growth of the soul.
It's easy to make a mistake here. "If God gave it to me," we say, "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is, that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer it back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of --if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.
The more you perceive God's purpose in your life, the less terrible will the losses seem.
Love interprets things in favor of the one loved. . .There's nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and its endurance.
Love must be patient when it is tempted (by the delays of other people) to be impatient. Love must not be selfish, even if other people are. Love does not take offence, though people are offensive sometimes. There are wrongs, but love won't keep score. There are things to be faced, but nothing love can't face, things to try love's faith, discourage its hope, and call for its endurance; but it keeps right on trusting; hoping, and enduring. Love never ends.
and this one's a sweet line from Jim Elliot in one of his letter so Elisabeth
Good-night, my brave lover, and may the God who loves you stronger than I stand guard over you through the night.
May God preserve us for His time.
Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation.. the old has gone.. the new has come...
-Passion and Purity
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