“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
― Jim Elliot
“Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”
― Jim Elliot
“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!”
― Jim Elliot
“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.”
― Jim Elliot
“God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him”
― Jim Elliot
“Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.”
― Jim Elliot
“I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that ‘aspect from beyond,’ to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons.”
― Jim Elliot
“Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.”
― Jim Elliot
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
― Jim Elliot
“The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.”
― Jim Elliot
“Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.”
― Jim Elliot
“Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!”
― Jim Elliot
“Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.”
― Jim Elliot
“Wherever you are – be all there.”
― Jim Elliot
“If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.”
― Jim Elliot
“It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God’s power would become known among us.”
― Jim Elliot
“We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are “harmless,” and therefore unharmed. We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the-death with principalities and powers in high places. Meekness must be had for contact with men, but brass, outspoken boldness is required to take part in the comradeship of the Cross. We are “sideliners” — coaching and criticizing the real wrestlers while content to sit by and leave the enemies of God unchallenged. The world cannot hate us, we are too much like its own. Oh that God would make us dangerous!”
― Jim Elliot
“Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.”
― Jim Elliot
“I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.”
― Jim Elliot
“Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His. Consider the call from the Throne above, “Go ye,” and from round about, “Come over and help us,” and even the call from the damned souls below, “Send Lazarus to my brothers, that they come not to this place.” Impelled, then, by these voices, I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. So what if the well-fed church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the Prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers. American believers have sold their lives to the service of Mammon, and God has His rightful way of dealing with those who succumb to the spirit of Laodicea.”
― Jim Elliot
“The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate love of the Lord Jesus for us seems such a kind thing now. I know it has always been so, but somehow I didn’t see how wise it was when it didn’t seem kind… Remind me of this when I cannot regard His love as considerate some time.”
― Jim Elliot
“I pray that the Lord might crown this year with His goodness and in the coming one give you a hallowed dare-devil spirit in lifting the biting sword of Truth, consuming you with a passion that is called by the cultured citizen of Christendom ‘fanaticism’, but known to God as that saint-ly madness that led His Son through bloody sweat and hot tears to agony on a rude Cross—and Glory!”
― Jim Elliot
“I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!”
― Jim Elliot
“Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. ‘Love never faileth.”
― Jim Elliot
“I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possesed of uncontrollably youthful passion – these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long….”
― Jim Elliot
“When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.”
― Jim Elliot
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
― Jim Elliot
“Wherever you are, be all there.”
― Jim Elliot
“May 2 Numbers 6 The Nazarite was holy in three negative ways: (1) he must not touch the grape; (2) he must not cut his hair; (3) he must not touch a dead body. Were I to transopose such consecration into new testament parallels I suppose this would be the setup:
1. Grapes– the source of natural joy–that which makes glad the heart of man. This is denying oneself the allowable pleasures for the sake of a greater holiness.
2. The long hair of man is his shame. He must let it grow so that he becomes unashamed of shame–reproach bearing for God.
3. Seperation from evil in all their doings–yea,even from family pulls (v.7).
I know little of any of these.”
― Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot
“One does not surrender a life in an instant – that which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that willl is. This may take years to know, hence fullness of the Spirit is not instantaneous but progressive as I attain fullness of the Word which reveals the will. If men were filled with the Spirit, they would not write books that subject, but on the Person whom the Spirit has come to reveal. Occupation with Christ is God’s object, not fullness of the Spirit. The apostles saw the effects – Christ exalted – and noted the cause. Then they realized and exhorted to fullness of the Comforter. Then they realized and exhorted, no toe fullness, not with fullness as the goal, but merely as the path to that great aim of a Christ-centered soul – drawing attendtion to its center.”
― Jim Elliot
“The shiny paint laid on by curiosity’s hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?”
― Jim Elliot
“Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!”
― Jim Elliot
“We best learn patience by practicing it.”
― Jim Elliot
“I walked out to the hill just now. It is exalting, delicious. To stand embraced by the shadows of a friendly tree with the wind tugging at your coattail and the heavens hailing your heart, to gaze and glory and to give oneself again to God, what more could a man ask? Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth. I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap, in mercy, He shall give me a host of children that I may lead through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose fingers’ ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, smell His garments, and smile into my Lover’s eyes, ah, then, not stars, nor children, shall matter–only Himself.”
― Jim Elliot
“Give what you cannot keep, to gain what you cannot loose.”
― Jim Elliot
“One does not surrender a life in an instant – that which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that willl is. This may take years to know, hence fullness of the Spirit is not instantaneous but progressive as I attain fullness of the Word which reveals the will. If men were filled with the Spirit, they would not write books on that subject, but on the Person whom the Spirit has come to reveal. Occupation with Christ is God’s object, not fullness of the Spirit. The apostles saw the effects – Christ exalted – and noted the cause, which was the blessed working of the Comforter. Then they realized and exhorted to fullness, not with fullness as the goal, but merely as the path to that great aim of a Christ-centered soul – drawing attendtion to its center.”
― Jim Elliot
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose.”
― Jim Elliot
“What is, is actual – what might be simply is not, and I must not therefore query God as though he robbed me – of things that are not. Further, the things that are belong to us, and they are good, God given, and enriched. Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living. It is true that our youth is fast fleeting, and I know the rush of wants, the perfect fury of desire which such a thought summons. All that it involves – getting on to thirty – brings a push of hurry and a surge of possible regrets over the soul….this is just exactly what we have bargained for. Obedience involves for us, not physical suffering, perhaps, not social ostracism as it has for some, but this warring with worries and regrets, this bringing into captivity our thoughts. We have planted (in our integrity) the banner of our trust in God. The consequences are His responsibility.”
― Jim Elliot
“He makes His ministers a flame of fire.’ Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things.’ Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame. But flame is transient, often short-lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul – short life? In me there dwells the Spirit of the Great Short-Lived, whose zeal for God’s house consumed Him. ‘Make me Thy Fuel, Flame of God.”
― Jim Elliot
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose”
― Jim Elliot
“Wherever you are, be all there”
― Jim Elliot
“I don’t know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future.”
― Jim Elliot
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.”
― Jim Elliot