God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
– Jim Elliot
Faith | Hope | Choices
Why do you need a voice when you have a verse.
– Jim Elliot
The Bible
Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
– Jim Elliot
Obedience
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.
– Jim Elliot
The Bible | Ignorance | Youth
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
– Jim Elliot
Giving
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away.
– Jim Elliot
Grace | Forgiveness | Restoration
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
– Jim Elliot
Examples | Leadership
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.
– Jim Elliot
Friendship | Humility | Women
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
– Jim Elliot
Laziness
Unwillingness to accept God’s “way of escape” from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within.
– Jim Elliot
Humility | Temptation | Rebellion
When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.
– Jim Elliot
Death
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.
– Jim Elliot
Obedience | Rest
I may 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.
– Jim Elliot
Holiness
Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!
– Jim Elliot
Holiness | Contentment
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life that I may burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life but a full one like You, Lord Jesus.
– Jim Elliot
Surrender | Life
The sound of ‘gentle stillness’ after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.
– Jim Elliot
Prayer | Contentment
Wherever you are – be all there.
– Jim Elliot
Philosophy | Life
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.
– Jim Elliot
Salvation | Christ | The Cross
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
– Jim Elliot
Holiness | Grief