All Quotes by Jim Elliot
“Wherever you are - be all there.”
“How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.”
“God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.”
“Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.”
“Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.”
“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.”
“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!”
“Wherever you are - be all there.”
“What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.”
“God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.”
“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.”
“Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.”
“God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.”
“The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.”
“We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.”
“I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. 'Lord, send me!'”
“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!”
“What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.”