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

Jim Elliot

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Jim Elliot
Age: 28 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 8
Died: 1956
Died: January 8
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Portland
Oregon
Philip James Elliot
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What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?
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Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
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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.
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He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.
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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!
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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.
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Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.
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Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?
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God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!
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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
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It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.
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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.
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I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
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Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
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Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
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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.
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