Quotes from Jim Elliot

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

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.

We best learn patience by practicing it.

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.

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

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

I couldn't have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!

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

God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!

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

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.