Quotes from Jim Elliot

Wherever you are - be all there.

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.

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

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

When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Begin each day with private reading of the Word and prayer.

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

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.

Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It's free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.

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.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

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!'

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.

When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled 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.

Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.