Jim Quotes
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.
Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future
View your body as something God has entrusted into your care.
Difficulty provides a platform for exposing Jesus to the world through your joy in the Lord.
The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.
God's love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God’s grace—not earned by your works.
The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards.
Like “love, ” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
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If you want to be a strong, maturing Christian, your first priority is to develop a closer relationship with God.
The basic question is not how much of our money we should give to God, but how much of God's money we should keep for ourselves.
Prayer is your attempt to bring your will and desires in line with God’s will.
Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.
Thankfulness should always be our first response when God answers prayers.
The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
Doubt treats God’s Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.
Happiness has its source in positive feelings, while joy has its source in Jesus.
In history, the bleeding from arbitrary beatings, forced breedings, and choked-heatbreathing could almost be withstood by soul-feeding songs sung, or listlessly hummed just to go on.
Christ alone makes possible everything you are as a Christian.
