Jim Elliot Quotes

• Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

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  The sound of ‘gentle stillness’ after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

   

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• Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

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• Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away.
  

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• It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.

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• I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

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• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

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  Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

   

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• Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

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• Wherever you are, be all there.

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• God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

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  Tags in Always, Best, Choice, Leave

Jim Elliot (11)

Birth:	8th October, 1927
Death:	8th January, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Missionary

About

Philip James Elliot was born in Portland, Oregon, USA. He was an American missionary. He was an evangelical Christian who was one of five missionaries killed while participating in Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador. He studied architectural drawing at Benson Polytechnic High School and Wheaton College.

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