Quotes from Jim Elliot (1927 – 1956)
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
“He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light” (Lamentations 3). I cannot doubt the leading simply because of the dark.
No man can say, as God does, “I AM because I AM;” all men must say, “I am because another begot me.”
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God’s ways, however trying to nature.
What Thou hast declared by Thy grace, Thou hast decreed to accomplish by Thy power. Lord, grant me an ordered life. Flow in all my hours.
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot @ElliotQuotes
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Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral — it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
We lack the intensity of feeling deeply, that sense of inevitable “must” which Christ possessed, the zeal for God’s house that consumed Him.
The sound of “gentle stillness” after all of the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God. Tarry long for it.
Jesus Christ must be preached with the full apprehension of who He is, the demanding Lord as well as the delivering Savior.
It is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey.
It is dangerous to get the cart before the horse, but it is essential in God’s program to get the heart before the course. (Ps. 84)