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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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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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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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Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
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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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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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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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Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
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I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.
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Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
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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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For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.
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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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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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Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.
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I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
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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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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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What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?
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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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