Quotes from Jim Elliot

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

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

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

I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful influence on this life of mine than your prayers.

The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

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?

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I 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.

Wherever you are - be all there.

As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But don't let the sands of time get into the eye of your vision to reach those who sit in darkness. They simply must hear.

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