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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.
Jim Elliot
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Jim Elliot
Age: 28 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 8
Died: 1956
Died: January 8
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Oregon
Philip James Elliot
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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.
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If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.
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Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
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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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Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
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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
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Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
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Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.
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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.
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Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.
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Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
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Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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