Jim Elliot

February 9, 2013

If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.

– Jim Elliot –

January 1, 2013

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…known to God as that saintly madness that led His Son through bloody sweat and hot tears to agony on a rude Cross–and Glory!

– Jim Elliot –
from Shadow of the Almighty

December 16, 2012

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

– Jim Elliot –

September 23, 2012

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

– Jim Elliot –

September 9, 2012

Father, make me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me 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 Eillot –

August 25, 2012

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.

– Jim Elliot –

August 1, 2012

Unwillingness to accept God’s “way of escape” from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within.

– Jim Elliot –

April 20, 2012

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

– Jim Elliot –

March 29, 2012

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life, that I may burn for Thee.

– Jim Elliot –