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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
Bible Translator
Missionary
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Portland
Oregon
Philip James Elliot
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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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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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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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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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Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
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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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The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
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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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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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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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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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Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
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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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