Jim Elliot quotes: top famous quotes and sayings by Jim Elliot

Top Jim Elliot Quotes

Browse top 27 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by Jim Elliot.

Favorite Jim Elliot Quotes

1. "Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God." ~ Jim Elliot

2. "Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness." ~ Jim Elliot

3. "Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!" ~ Jim Elliot

4. "The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect." ~ Jim Elliot

5. "Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God." ~ Jim Elliot

6. "It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us." ~ Jim Elliot

7. "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

8. "If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar." ~ Jim Elliot

9. "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," and therefore unharmed. We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the-death with principalities and powers in high places. Meekness must be had for contact with men, but brass, outspoken boldness is required to take part in the comradeship of the Cross. We are "sideliners" -- coaching and criticizing the real wrestlers while content to sit by and leave the enemies of God unchallenged. The world cannot hate us, we are too much like its own. Oh that God would make us dangerous!" ~ Jim Elliot

10. "Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His. Consider the call from the Throne above, "Go ye," and from round about, "Come over and help us," and even the call from the damned souls below, "Send Lazarus to my brothers, that they come not to this place." Impelled, then, by these voices, I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. So what if the well-fed church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the Prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers. American believers have sold their lives to the service of Mammon, and God has His rightful way of dealing with those who succumb to the spirit of Laodicea." ~ Jim Elliot

11. "I pray that the Lord might crown this year with His goodness and in the coming one give you a hallowed dare-devil spirit in lifting the biting sword of Truth, consuming you with a passion that is called by the cultured citizen of Christendom 'fanaticism', but known to God as that saint-ly madness that led His Son through bloody sweat and hot tears to agony on a rude Cross---and Glory!" ~ Jim Elliot

12. "May 2 Numbers 6 The Nazarite was holy in three negative ways: (1) he must not touch the grape; (2) he must not cut his hair; (3) he must not touch a dead body. Were I to transopose such consecration into new testament parallels I suppose this would be the setup:1. Grapes-- the source of natural joy--that which makes glad the heart of man. This is denying oneself the allowable pleasures for the sake of a greater holiness.2. The long hair of man is his shame. He must let it grow so that he becomes unashamed of shame--reproach bearing for God.3. Seperation from evil in all their doings--yea,even from family pulls (v.7).I know little of any of these." ~ Jim Elliot

13. "The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?" ~ Jim Elliot

14. "Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less." ~ Jim Elliot

15. "God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him." ~ Jim Elliot

16. "Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living." ~ Jim Elliot

17. "I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus." ~ Jim Elliot

18. "Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth." ~ Jim Elliot

19. "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." ~ Jim Elliot

20. "Wherever you are - be all there." ~ Jim Elliot

21. "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

22. "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

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

24. "The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God." ~ Jim Elliot

25. "I many 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

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

27. "I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons." ~ Jim Elliot

Jim Elliot Quotes Pictures

Jim Elliot Quotes

Jim Elliot Quotes

Jim Elliot Quotes

<< Mauric Friedman Quotes

David Elliott Quotes >>

Today's Quote

It's all a lie. I said to myself. Romance. This notion that some guy is going to swoop and fall madly in love with me and change my life and make everything perfect. It's one big, horrible lie and I bought it. Hook, line, and a ten thousand-pound sinker. Or I guess I should say it's a lie for a girl like me. For Skye, that's another story. The first time Dakota kissed me, down at the hot tub, I remember thinking, this is too good to be true. But if something feels too good to be true, maybe it's not true. Maybe the truth is that Skye deserves him. She'll always be the winner. And I, pathetically, will always be me."
Author: Carolyn Mackler

What Did Jim Elliot Talk About?

Famous Authors

Popular Topics