19 Jim Elliot Quotes

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse.

Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

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.

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.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

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.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within.

When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

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.

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.

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

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.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.

Wherever you are - be all there.

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.

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.