Quote #1
'He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.'
More from Jim Elliot
- 'Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation that you believe to be the will of God.'
- '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 …
- 'Saturate me with the oil of Thy Spirit, that I may be aflame. Make me Thy fuel O flame of God.'
- 'We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are 'harml…
- 'Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, bec…
- '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 mu…
- 'No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and …