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Jim Elliot
Age: 28 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 8
Died: 1956
Died: January 8
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Missionary
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Portland
Oregon
Philip James Elliot
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I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
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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.
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Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.
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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.
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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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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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God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
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Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
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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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Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?
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