“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”
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Elisabeth Elliot 58
American missionary 1926–2015Related quotes

"Egoism" as quoted by Amy Lowell, "Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg," Tendencies in Modern American Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=UgZaAAAAMAAJ (1917)

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“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”
Appended to a variant of the Serenity Prayer in The Armed Forces Prayer Book (1951)