Jim Elliot

Quotes from Jim Elliot (1927 – 1956)

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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

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“He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light” (Lamentations 3). I cannot doubt the leading simply because of the dark.

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No man can say, as God does, “I AM because I AM;” all men must say, “I am because another begot me.”

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He knows, and I wait.

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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God’s ways, however trying to nature.

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What Thou hast declared by Thy grace, Thou hast decreed to accomplish by Thy power. Lord, grant me an ordered life. Flow in all my hours.

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Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral — it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.

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We must steel ourselves to sacrifice joyfully, exulting in the knowledge of the proven will of God.

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We lack the intensity of feeling deeply, that sense of inevitable “must” which Christ possessed, the zeal for God’s house that consumed Him.

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The sound of “gentle stillness” after all of the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God. Tarry long for it.

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Lord, deliver me from sweet doctrinal nothings.

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Jesus Christ must be preached with the full apprehension of who He is, the demanding Lord as well as the delivering Savior.

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It is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey.

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We best learn patience by practicing it.

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It is dangerous to get the cart before the horse, but it is essential in God’s program to get the heart before the course. (Ps. 84)

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Power we lack; paint we have in abundance.

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Father, take my life—yea, my blood, if Thou wilt—and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save.