Linda Dillow Quotes

#1. The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson

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#2. Lord, I give You permission to search my heart and mind. Please show me every day what it feels like to be my husband.

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#3. If we are to find contentment in the midst of trial and uncertainty, we must accept our situation as being purposely allowed into our lives by a personal and loving God.

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#4. Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

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#5. Worry and anxiety give a small thing a big shadow, and this shadow creates problems, not just in the soul and spirit, but in the body.

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#6. Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. We know worry is destructive, and yet we continue to be choked by anxiety over what might happen.

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#7. We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.

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#8. At all times, in all circumstances, Christ is able and willing to provide the strength we need to be content. Contentment occurs when Christ's strength is infused into my weak body, soul, and spirit.

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#9. Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

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#10. It's not as important what a woman is as what she's becoming

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#11. Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

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#12. Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should. (Ps. 90:12 TLB).

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#13. Faith raises us above our circumstances. Faith enables us to be content even when life doesn't make sense. Faith is the bulwark that keeps us strong even when we're assailed by agonizing thoughts about what might happen or by what has happened.

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#14. God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

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#15. One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

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#16. Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I've sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter - content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don't know.

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#17. One of the most important things to learn in life and love is that I can be responsible only for what I can control. While I can't control my husband (or anyone else), I can control me.

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#18. Who you are is not a biological accident. What you are is not a circumstantial accident. God planned both for you.5

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#19. If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must make the choice to dwell on the positive aspects of our role in life. If we don't we'll be discontent, always wanting something different from what we've been given.

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#20. I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

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#21. Faith is not something to be reasoned from afar, but something we throw ourselves into - heart, mind, and soul.

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#22. Yes ... That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ... about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.

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#23. Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

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#24. Our perspective is of utmost importance to God: where our hope is, where our treasure is, and what we are doing with the riches God has given us.

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#25. Faithfulness is God's standard! As His servants we are not required to be perfect or successful - simply faithful.

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#26. Regardless of whether we live in the East or the West, whether we are rich or poor, we must find contentment with what God has given.

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