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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!

Jim Elliot

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Jim Elliot
Age: 28 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 8
Died: 1956
Died: January 8
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Philip James Elliot
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