Words matter. These are the best Jim Elliot Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Domesticated males aren’t much use for adventure.
The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.
Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. ‘Lord, send me!’
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Systematic theology – be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It’s free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Begin each day with private reading of the Word and prayer.
Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.
Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.
I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster’s ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea – as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless – and bound for Ecuador.
We wouldn’t think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.
Wherever you are – be all there.
Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one’s life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow’s pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.
