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Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

Jim Elliot

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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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Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.
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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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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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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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Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?
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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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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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It's hard to steer a parked car.
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For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.
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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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If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.
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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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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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Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
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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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Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.
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The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate love of the Lord Jesus for us seems such a kind thing now. I know it has always been so, but somehow I didn’t see how wise it was when it didn’t seem kind… Remind me of this when I cannot regard His love as considerate some time.
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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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Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
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