American - Clergyman | October 8, 1927 - January 8, 1956
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
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God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
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Wherever you are - be all there.
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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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The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
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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.
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How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
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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.
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Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
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Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
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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!'
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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.
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