A Few Snippets

Here are a few other snippets from A Chance to Die that I underlined as I read. Hope you enjoy...

If one is preparing to storm the bastions of heathendom, it won't do to blench at creepie-crawlies. (Learned while living in the slums of Belfast.) Another lesson Amy learned was to do at a moment's notice whatever was required. . . -E. Elliot

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To be like Christ. To displace self from the inner throne, and to enthrone Him; to make not the slightest compromise with the smallest sin. We aim at nothing less than to walk with God all day long, to abide every hour in Christ and He and His words in us, to love God with all the heart and our neighbor as ourselves. . . . It is possible to cast every care on Him daily, and to be at peace amidst pressure, to see the will of God in everything, to put away all bitterness and clamor and evil speaking, daily and hourly. It is possible by unreserved resort to divine power under divine conditions to become strongest through and through at our weakest point. -A. Carmichael

"All this was part of the going forth unto a land I knew not, and everything was just right, and if things went wrong it was so much the more fun. I knew they would come right in the end. And they always did." So with the charming lightheartedness of faith she only wondered, What next? -E. Elliot

". . .odoriferous radish, sea-weed, sea-ears, sea-slugs, plus pickle, plus rice". . . what He fed she'd swallow.  She found when the time came that she didn't really mind anything nearly as much as she had feared she might. The promised grace was always supplied.  -E. Elliot

She was finding at firsthand that missionaries are not set apart from the rest of the human race, not purer, nobler, higher. "Wings are an illusive fallacy," she wrote. "Some may possess them, but they are not very visible, and as for me, there isn't the least sign of a feather. Don't imagine that by crossing the sea and landing on a foreign shore and learning a foreign lingo you 'burst the bonds of outer sin and hatch yourself a cherubim.'" -E. Elliot

Seeds need to be watered. Prayer was that water, and Amy prayed. -E. Elliot

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