Wherever you are, be all there.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.
The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
I find that I have much enthusiasm for the future, I long to give my life in a calling that will count.
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
A firm faith belongs to a life carefully planned, lived, and loved for God’s glory.
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave to our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the rough and tumble of life, and carefully arranged in the concrete castles of recollection.
Jim Elliot Quotes part 2
When life is hard, and every light drifts away…suddenly I am blind, and I whimper that God did not build my life convinced of my own sufficiency.
Lord, I abandon myself into thy hands, do with me what you will.
When I attach myself to something I love and put myself into it, I drink of the joy I find in it, and thus God has used it to bless me.
God means us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His smile.
He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things.’ Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame.
Father, take my life, yea, my blood if thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it, Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar.
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
We are not really satisfied with anything less than God.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
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.
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
The being born again from above is an enduring, perpetual, and eternal beginning.
God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things.
I think that no experience is too bitter if it leads to Christ.
God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on 3 elements: noise, hurry, and crowds. He will not allow quietness.
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don’t, they don’t.
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
When I leave this world, I’ll leave no regrets. I’m leaving something that I’m proud of.
The story of the human race is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
What worth does anything have, apart from the Worth all things have from the beholder?
Christianity isn’t having religious knowledge; it’s an embodied relationship that allows God’s Spirit to work through us.
God always answers prayers. It’s just that sometimes the answer is no.
The deepest satisfaction we can ever know comes from being so close to God that we can know and do his will.
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twenty-first Century does not reckon with.
Gold is dust before the storm of God’s wrath. And the storm is nearer than you think.
Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
Be First to Comment