Quotes About Jim Elliot

#1. Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot

#2. The words of Jim Elliot were true: He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#3. Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Jim Elliot

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

Jim Elliot

#5. 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

#6. When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!

Jim Elliot

#7. Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call ... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond ...

Jim Elliot

#8. Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

Jim Elliot

#9. I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.

Jim Elliot

#10. Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.

Jim Elliot

#11. We best learn patience by practicing it.

Jim Elliot

#12. God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!

Jim Elliot

#13. If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.

Jim Elliot

#14. 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

#15. Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

Jim Elliot

#16. Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.

Jim Elliot

#17. 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.

Jim Elliot

#18. Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

Jim Elliot

#19. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

Jim Elliot

#20. 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

#21. God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him

Jim Elliot

#22. So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them ...

Jim Elliot

#23. Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

Jim Elliot

#24. Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!

Jim Elliot

#25. God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

Jim Elliot

#26. As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But don't let the sands of time get into the eye of your vision to reach those who sit in darkness. They simply must hear.

Jim Elliot

#27. Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar

Jim Elliot

#28. The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Jim Elliot

#29. I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

Jim Elliot

#30. Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

Jim Elliot

#31. It's hard to steer a parked car.

Jim Elliot

#32. No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.

Jim Elliot

#33. I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

Jim Elliot

#34. 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

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

Jim Elliot

#36. For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

Jim Elliot

#37. I couldn't have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!

Jim Elliot

#38. Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

Jim Elliot

#39. Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

Jim Elliot

#40. God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

Jim Elliot

#41. Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing.

Jim Elliot

#42. 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.

Jim Elliot

#43. 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

#44. Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

Jim Elliot

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

Jim Elliot

#46. Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

Elisabeth Elliot

#47. None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a facewash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility

Jim Elliot

#48. Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

Jim Elliot

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

Jim Elliot

#50. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

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

Jim Elliot

#52. Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

Jim Elliot

#53. He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

#54. What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?

Jim Elliot

#55. 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