25 result(s) for Jim Elliott Quotes.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
"Wherever you are, be all there."
"When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die."
"Father, take me or send me; here I am, use me."
"God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up 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."
"Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness."
"Satan is so much more in earnest than we are… he buys up the opportunity, when we are wondering how much it will cost."
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"Rest in the Lord, wait patiently for Him."
"If God wants me to be a theologian, he will see to it."
"We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are ‘harmless,’ so safe, while the world groans, bleeds, and dies. And the Church is left speechless, irrelevant, and eventually cast aside."
"The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for."
"Always preach the gospel and if necessary use words."
"Risk is only risk when you don't know the outcome. Once you know the outcome it is not a risk anymore, it becomes a surety. If you know you are walking in the will of God, then you are not walking in risk."
"I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish."
"Don’t measure life by the years, but by the donations."
"A man can never completely know himself until he has suffered. For it is only through suffering that a man can see what he is truly made of."
"Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God."
"Am I doing what God wants me to do? That's the question. Not what I want to do, but what does God want?"
"To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love?"
"If my life is surrendered to God, all things become possible. If my life is not surrendered to God, all things become impossible."
"I walked out to the highway and stood there, the wind whipping my hair, thinking, What next? What next? I thought, I'll just go walking. It was a kind of carefree thing to do."
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"If a person isn't willing to give up everything for Christ, is he really a Christian at all?"
"I must not think it strange, if I suffer alone."
"Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?"
"Practice faithfulness in the little things before you have to manage the big ones."
