"Waiting requires patience -- a willingness to calmly accept what we have or have not, where we are or where we wish we were, whomever we live or work with.
"To want what we don't have is impatience, for one thing, and it is to mistrust God. Is He not in complete control of all circumstances, events, and conditions? If some are beyond His control, He is not God.
"A spirit of resistance cannot wait on God. I believe it is this spirit which is the reason for some of our greatest suffering."
-Elisabeth Elliot, an excerpt from Keep a Quiet Heart (Waiting, page 134)
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