Quote

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

Jim Elliot

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jim Elliot
Age: 28 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 8
Died: 1956
Died: January 8
Bible Translator
Missionary
Translator
Portland
Oregon
Philip James Elliot
Done
Rejoice
Desert
Son
Seem
Vision
Gladly
Seeing
Grieve
Rather
Grieving
Seems
Sons

More quotes by Jim Elliot

Image
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
Jim Elliot
Image
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Jim Elliot
Image
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Jim Elliot
Image
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
Jim Elliot
Image
It's hard to steer a parked car.
Jim Elliot
Image
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
Image
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
Jim Elliot
Image
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
Jim Elliot
Image
If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.
Jim Elliot
Image
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
Image
Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.
Jim Elliot
Image
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
Image
Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.
Jim Elliot
Image
Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?
Jim Elliot
Image
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
Image
Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
Jim Elliot
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
Jim Elliot
Image
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