Quotes by Jim Elliot

Jim Elliot (1927–1956) — Missionar · Evangelikal · Ecuador

Jim Elliot war ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Missionar, der in den 1950er-Jahren im ecuadorianischen Amazonasgebiet unter indigenen Völkern wirkte. Bekannt wurde er durch seinen gewaltsamen Tod beim Versuch der Kontaktaufnahme mit den isoliert lebenden Huaorani sowie durch seine Schriften über radikale Glaubenshingabe. Für heutige Bibelleser veranschaulicht sein Leben den Anspruch kompromissloser Nachfolge, wirft im Rückblick jedoch auch Fragen nach den Risiken und paternalistischen Mustern historischer Missionspraxis auf.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Discipleship, Growth & Character, Faith & Trust, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Courage & Strength, Guidance & God's Will, Meaning & Identity, Witness & Mission

Quotes by Jim Elliot

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

Live so that you can accept every situation completely from the hand of God.
Jim Elliot

Flame of God, let me be your fuel.
Jim Elliot

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.
Jim Elliot

The presence of spiritual life is sometimes noticed only through the struggle to maintain it.
Jim Elliot

The believer who advances on his knees never needs to retreat.
Jim Elliot

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

Saturate my being with the oil of your Holy Spirit, that I may burst into flame.
Jim Elliot

The only thing I know is that my life is full. It is time to die, for I have had everything a young man could have. I am ready to stand before Jesus.
Jim Elliot

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds… Satan is quite aware of the power of silence.
Jim Elliot

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse.
Jim Elliot

Live so that when you come to die, you have nothing to do but die.
Jim Elliot

We often have the impure ambition to do something for God in the sight of people, rather than to be something regardless of whether results become visible.
Jim Elliot

Lord, make my life prosper, not that I attain high rank, but that my life be an open sign of what it means to know God.
Jim Elliot

Remember: God will not let you die before your work is done. But do not let the sand of time get into your eyes, so that they no longer see those still sitting in darkness.
Jim Elliot

Father, let me be weak, so that I lose the strength to cling to worldly things.
Jim Elliot

What use is Greek text, commentaries, knowledge, talent, and everything else, if the heart is not with Christ.
Jim Elliot

Lord, here I am. Send me, oh, send me out!
Jim Elliot

God withholds his blessing only out of wisdom, never out of malice or indifference.
Jim Elliot

I must not find it strange that God takes young people away whom I myself would have left here on earth. God populates the beyond, and I cannot expect him to limit himself to old people.
Jim Elliot

Unwillingness to accept God’s "way of escape" from temptation frightens me – what a rebel yet resides within.
Jim Elliot

Those who know the great and tender heart of Jehovah will surely be led to deny their own loves, to participate in the expression of His love.
Jim Elliot

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

Walk as though the next step might carry you across the threshold of heaven.
Jim Elliot

The will of God is always something greater than we expect.
Jim Elliot

Tune my ear, Lord, that it hears only your voice.
Jim Elliot

That God guides us, I believe just as firmly as that he has redeemed us.
Jim Elliot

If people were filled with the Spirit, they would not write books about him, but about the person the Spirit has come to reveal to us. God's aim is that we occupy ourselves with Christ.
Jim Elliot

How few, how short are the days we wander here on this earth — then comes the great step into the other, the real world, where the invisible becomes important.
Jim Elliot

Are we ready to build like this — the trowel in one hand, and the other on the sword?
Jim Elliot

What better can a person come to know than the love of Christ, which surpasses all knowledge?
Jim Elliot

As your whole life, so also the length of your life is in God's hand.
Jim Elliot

Overcome everything by trusting in your oneness with Jesus.
Jim Elliot

Preaching that comes merely from man, however eloquent and compelling, can never kindle the fire that the speech of a man of God ignites, out of whom God himself speaks.
Jim Elliot

Strive to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Jim Elliot

Better to revel in the knowledge of Christ than to wallow in the bottomless swamp of philosophy.
Jim Elliot

I say nothing against wisdom - but it comes from God, not through academic degrees.
Jim Elliot

May the Lord give me strength to live as his word demands.
Jim Elliot

Lord, show me that I must be a stranger, unconcerned with earthly things and unattached to them.
Jim Elliot

Live every day as if the Son of Man were standing at the door.
Jim Elliot

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Sources: christiantoday.com, medium.com, therevealer.org, imb.org

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